Rent the Runway - Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)
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Requirements
• Familiarity with Snowflake or BigQuery, including query performance and cost optimization • Experience working with workflow orchestration tools such as Prefect, Airflow, or similar • Experience integrating SQL or dbt linters into CI/CD workflows to enforce code quality and platform standards • Experience designing or maintaining data quality checks, test automation, or schema validation workflows • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm to manage database operators and sidecar utilities. • Background in tooling like Python, Go, or Java to automate away "toil."
Responsibilities
• Availability & Reliability: Manage and optimise CloudSQL and MongoDB environments for performance, reliability, recovery, and cost. • Availability & Reliability: • Data Administration: Improve platform efficiency through query tuning, schema design, and automation. • Data Administration: • Data Governance: Implement data lifecycle and governance practices (e.g. pruning, retention, access control). • Data Governance: • Change Management: Develop maintenance and operations automation through CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that database data and schema changes along with infrastructure updates are seamless and audited. • Change Management: • CI/CD pipelines • Observability: Implement practices to build database-specific alerting, tracing, and automation that maintain the highest levels of data availability. • Observability: • Compliance: SOX-compliant access controls, ensuring data integrity and auditability are baked into the code. • Compliance • Operations: Support incident response, root cause analysis, and cross-functional platform initiatives. • Operations: • Take on scoped technical delivery work as part of broader platform initiatives. • You have 6+ years of experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres) in production, including cloud-managed services like CloudSQL or RDS • You have 2+ years of hands-on experience with MongoDB, including performance tuning and applying governance or lifecycle practices • You’ve worked in cloud-native environments (preferably GCP) and are comfortable using Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools • You are proficient in Python (or another general-purpose language) for scripting, automation, or infrastructure workflows • You have experience implementing CI/CD workflows for database changes and are familiar with Git-based deployment • You’ve contributed to or enforced data governance policies such as retention, pruning, and access controls • You’ve made measurable improvements to platform performance, cost, or reliability — including optimizing indexing strategies, query patterns, and database schema design • You take ownership, communicate clearly, and enjoy collaborating with engineers and data teams • You’re pragmatic, improvement-driven, and excited to shape the future of database engineering in a cloud-first world
Benefits
• At Rent the Runway, we’re committed to the happiness and well-being of our employees, and aim to create a workplace that fosters both personal and professional growth. Our inclusive benefits include, but are not limited to: • Generous Paid Time Off, including annual leave, paid bereavement, and family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves and their family. • Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program - because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention. • Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service - unplug, recharge, and have some fun. • Competitive Stakeholder Pension - taking care of your future. • Comprehensive health, dental care and dependents care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first, and we’ve got you covered. • Company-wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun! • Hybrid Work -This hybrid role requires 2-3 days per week in our Galway, Ireland office, with the option to work 2 days remotely.
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