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Staff Database Reliability EngineerAchievers • Toronto, ON, CA
Staff Database Reliability Engineer

Staff Database Reliability Engineer

Achievers • Toronto, ON, CA
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

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About Achievers

Achievers offers more than just a thank you program. Our employee recognition and rewards software inspires employees to recognize everyone, every day, everywhere. With 4.3 million global users, we empower employees across 190 countries. Visit us at achievers.com to learn more and check out our platform in action. Join our team of A-players who bring passion to our purpose and believe that meaningful change creates extraordinary outcomes — together, we’ll inspire recognition everywhere and achieve results that matter.

Our commitment to you

At Achievers, we hire you for you because we value the unique perspective and individuality that each person brings our team. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where you belong, and your contributions are celebrated. Together, we achieve more by combining our unique strengths, fostering collaboration, and inspiring each other to reach new heights.

The opportunity

We’re looking for a Staff Database Reliability Engineer who loves building reliable, fast, and secure data systems. At Achievers, our MySQL and PostgreSQL clusters in GCP power the core of our platform, and we’re continually evolving them to support new features, higher reliability, and smarter automation.

As a Staff DBRE, you’ll help design, maintain, and improve these clusters, from performance tuning and high availability to security, tooling, and upgrade strategy. You’ll also stay close to what’s happening in the MySQL and open‑source communities so we can bring the best ideas into our environment.

If you enjoy solving meaningful reliability challenges, shaping the future of our data infrastructure, and working in a team that cares about doing things the right way, you’ll feel right at home here.

How You’ll Shape Our Data Infrastructure

  • Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for managing and scaling MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL database clusters, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and security across the Achievers platform.
  • Lead advanced performance tuning and optimization initiatives, proactively identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions to enhance database efficiency for a global SaaS environment.
  • Partner with development teams to architect and optimize complex queries and database interactions, elevating application performance and reliability.
  • and implement robust automation frameworks for database administration, driving the evolution of best practices and tooling for continuous improvement.
  • Evaluate, define, and champion process improvements to increase reliability, scalability, and maintainability of database infrastructure.
  • Develop and maintain sophisticated scripts and tools to support seamless delivery of database updates, schema changes, and operational tasks.
  • Lead proactive initiatives to assess and implement enhancements for the database infrastructure, leveraging emerging technologies and industry trends.
  • Architect cloud database solutions supporting microservices at enterprise scale, guiding infrastructure design and strategic decision-making for global deployments.

Experience we feel will set you up for success

  • 5+ years experience in managing MySQL in a high traffic SaaS environment
  • Experience with recent MySQL versions 5.7, 8 etc.
  • Some experience with other database engines (eg PostgresSQL, Clickhouse)
  • Some experience working in cloud services (GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Strong understanding of MySQL replication technologies (eg.sten, Galera, Group Replication)
  • Strong experience in MySQL sharding and partitioning
  • 2+ years experience with scripting languages (eg. Bash, python, ruby)
  • 2+ years experience working with a LAMP stack
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong problem solving and debugging skills
  • Have knowledge in data warehousing and enterprise IT concepts
  • Advanced Python development skills is preferred
  • You’re a self starter
  • Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Terraform
  • Background in PHP development is ideal (that’s legacy)
  • High proficiency and comfort working in command‑line environments
  • Why you’ll love working at Achievers

    ✨ We are passionate about disruptive technology that’s rooted in science, research and data.

    ✨ We understand the value of employee success in the workplace and have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence, and for our outstanding workplace culture!

    ✨ We foster an environment of connection, security, and community. You’ll feel at home, without reservation.

    ✨ We believe in moving quickly, failing fast, and adapting to change.

    ✨ We enjoy coming to work every day because we believe in our product and love our culture.

    ✨ We’re committed to achieving excellence in everything we do.

    Our work environment

    Achievers is a hybrid‑first company located at 99 Atlantic Ave in Liberty Village, Toronto. Our hybrid work experience is designed to cultivate an engaging employee experience, where pioneering research intersects with cutting‑edge technology. We strongly believe that collocating teams increases the chance to innovate together, foster passive learning, create spontaneous connections, and promote better communication.

    Achievers does not offer employment to prospects without first ensuring that qualified candidates speak directly with the hiring manager and a member of our HR team. All qualification will be done face‑to‑face, whether that is in person or over Zoom. Achievers does not send out offers of employment without meeting candidates and does not offer employment via text. If you are requested for any personal information via text and / or without having met a member of our hiring team in person, please disregard.

    Our employees are a diverse and inclusive team of passionate, hardworking individuals. Achievers is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We encourage all qualified candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply to join our A‑Player family.

    Achievers is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations for your interview, such as assistive technology, wheelchair accessibility, or alternative formats of materials, please let us know. We are happy to make necessary arrangements to support your needs.

    At Achievers, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications or analyzing resumes. These tools help our recruitment team but never replace decisions made by real people. We believe in a human‑first approach to hiring, where your experience, personality, and potential are recognized by people, not algorithms, and where final hiring decisions are made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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