Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

at Okta

Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC, hybrid, senior, full time, USD 1,43,000–2,20,000 / year, 4+ years

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Debezium
PostgreSQL
Go
Kafka
Prometheus
pg_stat_statements
Datadog
Grafana
PMM
Terraform
GCP
PgBouncer
MySQL
Ansible
AWS
HAProxy
Kubernetes
Python

About the role

Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Experience Level: Mid–Senior (4+ years PostgreSQL experience)

We are looking for a highly skilled Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) with deep expertise in PostgreSQL at scale and solid experience with MySQL. In this role, you will design, operationalize, and optimize the data persistence layer that powers our large-scale, mission-critical systems. You will work closely with SRE, Platform, and Engineering teams to ensure performance, reliability, automation, and operational excellence across our database environment.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building resilient data infrastructure, not just administering it.

What you would do

Architecture, Reliability & Performance

* Design, implement, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters (physical replication, logical replication, sharding/partitioning, failover automation). * Optimize query performance, indexing strategies, schema design, and storage engines. * Perform capacity planning, growth forecasting, and workload modeling. * Own high-availability strategies including automatic failover, multi-AZ/multi-region setups, and disaster recovery.

Automation & Tooling

* Develop automation for any and all tasks including but not limited to: provisioning, configuration, backups, failovers, vacuum tuning, and schema management using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes Operators, or custom tooling. * Build monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems for PostgreSQL and MySQL.

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What they are looking for

* 4 plus years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in high-volume, distributed, or large-scale production environments. * Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals (WAL, MVCC, bloat/ vacuum tuning, query planner, indexing, logical replication). * Production experience with MySQL (InnoDB internals, replication, performance tuning). * Advanced SQL and strong understanding of schema design and query optimization. * Experience with Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and systems troubleshooting. * Experience building automation with Go or Python. * Production experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PMM, pg_stat_statements, etc.). * Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS or GCP).

* Experience with PgBouncer, HAProxy, or other connection-pooling/load-balancing layers. * Exposure to event streaming (Kafka, Debezium) and change data capture. * Experience supporting 24/7 production environments with on-call rotation. * Contributions to open-source PostgreSQL ecosystem.

This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

Requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco, CA HQ office or our Chicago office during the first week of employment.

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us .

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $160,000—$220,000 USD

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us .

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between:$143,000—$196,000 USD

The Okta Experience

* Supporting Your Well-Being * Driving Social Impact * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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Okta complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules. For additional information about the federal requirements, click here .

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Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 19,300 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.

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