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Database Administrator/Reliability Engineer III
| Company | Rent the Runway |
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| Location | Brooklyn, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $116000 – $145000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 6+ years of experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres) in production, including cloud-managed services like CloudSQL or RDS
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with MongoDB, including performance tuning and applying governance or lifecycle practices
- Experience working in cloud-native environments (preferably GCP) and comfortable using Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools
- Proficient in Python (or another general-purpose language) for scripting, automation, or infrastructure workflows
- Experience implementing CI/CD workflows for database changes and familiar with Git-based deployment
- Experience contributing to or enforcing data governance policies such as retention, pruning, and access controls
- Experience making measurable improvements to platform performance, cost, or reliability — including optimizing indexing strategies, query patterns, and database schema design
- Ability to take ownership, communicate clearly, and enjoy collaborating with engineers and data teams
- Pragmatic, improvement-driven, and excited to shape the future of database engineering in a cloud-first world.
Responsibilities
- Manage and optimize CloudSQL and MongoDB environments for performance, reliability, and cost
- Implement data lifecycle and governance practices (e.g. pruning, retention, access control)
- Improve platform efficiency through query tuning, schema design, and automation
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows for database operations
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and cross-functional platform initiatives
- Help evolve the DBA role into a modern, proactive database engineering function
- Take on scoped technical delivery work as part of broader Data Engineering platform initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Snowflake or BigQuery, including query performance and cost optimization
- Experience working with workflow orchestration tools such as Prefect, Airflow, or similar
- Experience integrating SQL or dbt linters into CI/CD workflows to enforce code quality and platform standards
- Experience designing or maintaining data quality checks, test automation, or schema validation workflows.
