Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

<p data-renderer-start-pos="1"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">About us:</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12">Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="314">Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture.&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="576">We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="847">Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">About the role:</strong></p> <p>This Senior Database Reliability Engineer is responsible for supporting all production database systems so that they run smoothly. We run MySQL 8.4 on Google Cloud Platform’s CloudSQL, alongside Google Cloud Spanner for globally distributed workloads.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities include, but are not limited to</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead, and take ownership of our core database systems to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security</li> <li>Communicate critical data changes to the data warehousing team</li> <li>Work alongside both engineering teams and data teams to shepherd schema changes from design to deployment to ensure architectural and downstream compatibility</li> <li>Build and maintain automated test and deployment data pipelines, including production level data testing at scale, with SRE and DevOps teams</li> <li>Proactively work on detecting weak areas and incorporate into automated monitoring and production alerting with our Cloud Ops teams</li> <li>Document and automate processes to eliminate time spent on recurring tasks</li> <li>Evaluate new database features (and products if needed) to meet scalability and global uptime requirements</li> <li>Own database backup and recovery, and help establish disaster recovery targets and practices as the systems scale</li> <li>Support, debug, and perform RCA on production database issues, and participate in incident response as needed</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience managing MySQL/CloudSQL at scale</li> <li>Expert at SQL and MySQL specifics including schema design</li> <li>Deep knowledge of MySQL internals</li> <li>Solid understanding of MySQL replication, SQL tuning, and database optimization while minimizing downtime</li> <li>Experience operating Google Cloud Spanner at scale, including schema design and query optimization</li> <li>BS in Computer Science or equivalent program</li> <li>Bonus points for:</li> <ul> <li>Payments experience (or related industry)</li> <li>Experience with the GCP toolset</li> <li>Experience with infrastructure as code</li> <li>Experience with Redis</li> <li>Experience with global, multi-region deployments including sharding</li> </ul> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1033"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Compensation:</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1048">The base salary range for this role is&nbsp;<span class="fabric-background-color-mark" data-renderer-mark="true" data-background-custom-color="#fedec8">$175-185k. </span>The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the U.S. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicant's specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc.&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1365"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Location:</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1376">This position is classified as REMOTE<strong data-renderer-mark="true"> </strong>within the United States of America.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1452"><em data-renderer-mark="true">We are unable to hire candidates located outside of the domestic U.S.</em></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1523"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Benefits:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1537">Market-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance&nbsp;</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1594">Stock options</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1611">Free Premium-Tier Origin Financial Wellness subscription</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1671">Monthly home-office stipend</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1702">401k (TransAmerica)</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1725">12-weeks paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1795">Flexible time off + sick and safe time</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1837">11 paid company holidays</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1837">Branch@Branch Same Day Pay Option</li> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1865"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Working at Branch</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1884">A remote-first company with employees located throughout the U.S., Branch emphasizes transparency, accountability, and trust to create a collaborative environment where our product, engineering, marketing, customer support, customer success, and sales teams can all thrive together.&nbsp; Learn more about what we do in this <a class="_mizu1p6i _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu1r31 _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _syaz14q2 _ect41gqc _1a3b1r31 _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj14q2 _9oik1r31 _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l314q2 _1nrm1r31 _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h16c2 _1053w7te _1ienw7te _n0fxw7te _1vhvg3x0" href="https://cdn.bfldr.com/CUTY2K5N/as/jrr3hk6csnwjhrx8phg6ppnj/The_Branch_Manifesto" data-renderer-mark="true"><u data-renderer-mark="true">video</u></a>!</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2212">Our collaborative spirit has helped us become an award-winning FinTech company, with Branch’s innovation and workplace recognized across industries. Branch has been honored by Inc., the Webby Awards, Benzinga FinTech Awards, FinTech Breakthrough Awards, Top Workplaces USA, Great Places to Work, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Heartland, among others.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2569">Learn more about our culture, approach, technology, and people here: <span data-inline-card="true" data-card-url="https://www.branchapp.com/about" data-annotation-inline-node="true" data-annotation-mark="true" data-renderer-start-pos="2638"><span class="loader-wrapper"><span class="hover-card-trigger-wrapper" data-testid="hover-card-trigger-wrapper"><a class="_1yt4x7n9 _2rko12b0 _v56415x0 _1e0c1nu9 _16d9qvcn _syaz14q2 _1rkwglyw _4cvx15qp _19it7r9e _bfhkhp5a _1a3b1r31 _4fprglyw _5goinqa1 _9oik1r31 _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _1nrm1r31 _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _uizt1kdv _nt751r31 _49pcglyw _1hvw1o36 _1372tlke _7ehi1s3c _1j5pglyw _1di6fg4m" href="https://www.branchapp.com/about" data-testid="inline-card-resolved-view">https://www.branchapp.com/about</a></span></span></span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2642">&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2645"><em data-renderer-mark="true">Branch is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. 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