Manager, Database Reliability Engineering

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing Database Reliability Engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
• Oversee the reliability, performance, availability, and scalability of MongoDB, MySQL, and Elasticsearch clusters across multiple regions.
• Architect and drive automation for database provisioning, scaling, backups, upgrades, and recovery using Go or Python.
• Implement automated monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and self-healing solutions.
• Lead major incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with SRE, CloudOps, Security, and development teams to support feature launches and reliability improvements.
• Manage capacity forecasting and cost-effective database scaling.
• Ensure security, compliance, and data protection across all database operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in database engineering, DBRE, or SRE roles.
• 3+ years of experience in technical leadership or management (prior Manager experience is a must).
• Deep hands-on experience managing and automating MongoDB, MySQL, and Elasticsearch.
• Strong programming skills in Go or Python for database automation and tooling.
• Proven expertise in building and scaling highly available database clusters (replication, sharding, backup/restore).
• Strong knowledge of database security, access controls, and compliance practices.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

About the Company

Tekion is positively disrupting the automotive industry with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform. Our ecosystem connects OEMs, retailers, and consumers through a seamless platform using cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI. With nearly 3,000 employees across North America, Asia, and Europe, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever.