Senior Database Reliability Engineer

About the role

The Database Operations Engineering team provides a seamless infrastructure foundation to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans. As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you will be primarily responsible for operating, improving, and maintaining the reliability and operational excellence of our data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Drive, stabilize, and own 24x7 database production support operations, processes, and incident remediation.
• Responsible for tracking database alerts, establishing clear operational procedures, and bringing infrastructure alerts to rapid closure.
• Architect, implement, and maintain reusable database-specific IaC components and configurations using frameworks like Terraform, CloudFormation or Pulumi.
• Standardize configurations across multiple datastores to enable automated infrastructure deployment, sizing, and posture management.
• Proactively enable and standardize mission-critical database attributes and configurations by default, including automated backups, failover strategies, timeouts, and lifecycle policies.
• Strengthen and actively participate in the database on-call rotation, identifying SLAs, system vulnerabilities, and operational gaps to eliminate Single Points of Failure (SPOF).
• Manage large-scale data infrastructures, execute cluster management, capacity planning, data governance, compliance reviews, and handle complex data store migrations (such as MariaDB to Aurora/DynamoDB) and major version upgrades safely during non-US low traffic hours.
• Work alongside a seasoned team of database engineering specialists to systematically scale platform features while executing a continuous learning roadmap to expand personal depth in native AWS database services (RDS/Aurora) and complex SQL tuning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in database operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), or a related role with a heavy focus on data platforms and core operational infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in Automation and IaC frameworks, with extensive hands-on experience in building database IaC.
• Prior experience handling large-scale database production support at scale is highly valued.
• Extensive experience with the AWS cloud platform and hands-on implementation of CI/CD pipelines and DatabaseOps workflows.
• Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, DevOps Guru, Database Performance Insights) to track metrics, latency, throughput, and system errors.
• Strong understanding of various system performance metrics at a low level (such as Disk/IO saturation) and experience identifying or eliminating operational bottlenecks.
• Familiarity with managing large-scale database structures across various systems (SQL and NoSQL).
• Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mentality, proactive communication skills, and a baseline capability to document clear incident response playbooks and operational requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS cloud platform.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DatabaseOps workflows.
• Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools.
• Understanding of system performance metrics.
• Familiarity with managing large-scale database structures.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

Skills

• Automation and IaC frameworks.
• Database production support and operations.
• Database-specific IaC components and configurations.
• CI/CD pipelines and DatabaseOps workflows.
• MariaDB to Aurora/DynamoDB migrations.
• Data governance and compliance reviews.
• Complex SQL tuning.

Benefits

• Great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential.
• Flexible time off policies.
• Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) program.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Commuter benefit.
• Pet insurance.
• Pet-friendly office spaces.

Pay

The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.

Schedule

Actual schedule will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance.