Lead and execute the architectural design, high availability strategies including multi-region, and business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions across Checkr’s multi-cloud database fleet.

Inspire and drive high standards across the team by mentoring and growing engineers.

Drive the long-term vision and strategy of database architecture at Checkr; communicate that strategy in a way that resonates with engineers and upper leadership, and propose projects that move the company towards that vision

Ensure the security of highly sensitive data through encryption and security-first architecture

Provision, scale, and maintain cloud database systems across production, staging, and sandbox environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt).

Optimize database performance at the query, schema, connection, and instance levels across PostgreSQL or MySQL, and MongoDB workloads.

Partner with Site Reliability Engineering to build proactive observability, automated alerting, and diagnostic tooling for database health and performance metrics.

Automate operational toil, maintenance workflows, schema migrations, and backup lifecycle policies to improve reliability and engineering velocity.

Lead incident diagnosis, resolution, and post-incident reviews for critical database alerts and outages across customer-serving infrastructure.

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)

10+ years of experience designing, administering, and scaling relational and non-relational database storage architectures in production environments.

Deep expertise managing and tuning MongoDB and PostgreSQL or MySQL database topologies at high volume and scale.

Staff Database Reliability Engineer

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Required

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Company

Checkr

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