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About the Role

As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you will ensure the availability, reliability, performance, and security of enterprise database systems. This role focuses on reducing operational toil through automation, enabling secure, scalable database platforms, and empowering engineering teams through self-service capabilities and DevOps integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated database provisioning and configuration management
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools like Terraform and Ansible
• Build self-service database capabilities and platform APIs
• Implement event-driven automation and auto-remediation workflows
• Establish policy-driven guardrails for database configuration, access, and compliance
• Integrate database services into CI/CD pipelines and release workflows
• Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Design and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) architectures
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews
• Monitor and optimize database performance, query efficiency, and throughput
• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks
• Design and manage replication strategies including logical, physical, and CDC
• Support large-scale database migrations
• Implement least privilege and role-based access controls
• Manage database schema lifecycles using version-controlled tools
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years in database engineering, DBA, or DBRE roles
• Strong experience in SQL, performance tuning, HA, backup, and recovery
• Linux/Unix expertise
• Impact Analysis, Solution Design, and Technical Domain Expertise
• Testing & Validation skills

Skills

• AWS RDS / Aurora PostgreSQL
• AWS DMS / CDC / replication
• Observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
• DevOps tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Python and shell scripting
• REST APIs
• JIT / PAM (CyberArk)
• Data lake / warehouse / lakehouse exposure
• Distributed systems / microservices
• Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL

Location

• Southfield, Michigan
• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time
• Remote
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 7+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

• $104,081 – $152,652
• Annual variable cash bonus between 7.5% - 15%

Benefits

• 401(K) match
• Adoption assistance
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous PTO and holidays (27.5 total days during first full year)
• Quarterly profit sharing
• Annual merit bonuses
• Company provided technology packages

About the Company

• Leading provider of used and new car financing across the country
• Award-winning company recognized locally and nationally
• Focuses on professional development and continuous improvement
• Great Place to Work culture

Equal Opportunity

• Credit Acceptance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or criminal history.