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About the Role

As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you will focus primarily on Cloud based SQL Server environments. You will be responsible for designing, automating, and maintaining reliable database infrastructure that supports mission-critical applications. As a senior member of the team, you’ll be a hands-on technical leader—driving automation, mentoring engineers, and partnering with development and infrastructure teams to deliver resilient, secure, and performant data platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead database architecture and design initiatives, delivering scalable, high-performance, reliable solutions aligned with business needs and long-term strategic goals.
Leverage AI/ML technologies to improve database operations through performance optimization, capacity planning, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and automation.
Develop, maintain, and enhance database monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery systems to ensure system health, data integrity, and high availability.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues, providing technical leadership, guidance, and operational support, including participation in on-call rotations.
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies by conducting regular database audits, assessments, and governance reviews.
Collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams, mentor junior database engineers, stay current on emerging database technologies and best practices, and remain flexible to support global teams across multiple time zones.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) with 8+ years of hands-on database administration, management, and performance optimization experience.
Deep expertise in MySQL, including database design, implementation, configuration, security, troubleshooting, maintenance, backup/recovery, replication, and performance tuning.
Strong automation and cloud experience, including scripting with Bash, Python, or Ruby and managing large-scale AWS environments, with knowledge of cloud-native database services such as RDS and Aurora; Azure or GCP experience is a plus.
Experience building and maintaining database observability solutions, including monitoring, dashboards, and alerting using tools such as PMM, New Relic, VividCortex, or similar database management platforms.
Expertise in high-availability and disaster recovery solutions, including failover clustering, Orchestrator, and strategies that ensure database reliability, resilience, and business continuity.
Preferred qualifications include experience with PostgreSQL or MongoDB, configuration management tools (Chef/Puppet), Terraform, GitHub-based workflows, and relevant database administration or automation certifications.

Skills

SQL Server
AI/ML
Bash
Python
Ruby
AWS
RDS
Aurora
Azure
GCP
PMM
New Relic
VividCortex
failover clustering
Orchestrator
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Chef
Puppet
Terraform
GitHub

Location

Remote

Work Type

Remote
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
8+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Salary/Compensations

$142,000 - $198,667 a year

About the Company

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small.
Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers.
We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.

Equal Opportunity

Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment.
Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.