Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Innovate with purpose

At BILL we believe in empowering the businesses that drive our economy. By replacing outdated financial processes with innovative tools we help businessesfrom startups to established brandsmake smarter decisions and gain control of their operations. And we dont stop there : were creating the future of financial automation so businesses can spend more time on what matters.

Working here means you become part of a vision-driven team thats ready to tackle challenges and build cutting-edge solutions. We value purpose drive and curiosityand we thrive in a fast-paced ever-changing environment. Whether in one of our offices in San Jose CA Draper UT or working remotely BILLders collaborate to deliver real impact for businesses that need more time in their busy weeks.

BILL builds high performing teams and we seek to hire the best talent for every role. Were committed to building a workplace that fosters inclusion and diverse perspectives valuing each persons unique skills and experiences. Wed love to hear from youyou might be just what were looking for whether in this role or another.

Lets give businesses more time for what matters.

Make Your Impact on the Core Infrastructure Team

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Core Infrastructure Team. This team is central to managing all of BILLs infrastructure and databases. We champion Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS ECS and ensure robust real-time alerting via Slack and PagerDuty leveraging a suite of monitoring tools including Foglight DataDog (for Logging Metrics and APM) Splunk and CloudWatch (integrated via Datadog).

In this crucial role you will be responsible for architecting building scaling and supporting high-throughput data platforms that underpin mission-critical business applications. Success requires deep expertise across enterprise databases real-time streaming and distributed systems.

As a key contributor you will collaborate with engineering product and infrastructure teams to design and build resilient fault-tolerant real-time data pipelines. A critical focus of this role is ensuring exceptional data consistency and high performance at the database level primarily by utilizing technologies like Kafka and Flink.

Wed love to chat if you have :

• 5 years of hands-on experience with enterprise RDBMS (PostgreSQL / Aurora / MySQL / Oracle) focusing on optimization security and access control.
• 3 years managing databases & CDC Streaming services on AWS.
• Experience with Apache / Confluent Kafka (brokers partitions offsets Schema Registry Connect) including running clusters at scale with exactly-once or at-least-once delivery.
• Familiarity with Flink pipelines (stateful streaming checkpointing windows savepoints).
• Strong experience designing fault-tolerant data ingestion and streaming architectures.
• Strong experience with replication tools like GoldenGate / Debezium .
• Expertise in IaC with Terraform and GitLab applying an SDLC approach to infrastructure.
• Strong SQL skills and experience in query optimization.
• Strong knowledge of performance tuning execution plans indexing partitioning and concurrency.
• Experience implementing High Availability (HA) replication Change Data Capture (CDC) disaster recovery and multi-region database deployments.
• Proficiency in Python and other programming languages.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex platform issues across the database streaming and infrastructure layers.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools like DataDog Splunk and CloudWatch for real-time performance monitoring and issue resolution.
• Familiarity with containers and cloud platforms ( Kubernetes / ECS / AWS ).
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Key Competencies

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The estimated salary range for this role is noted below for our San Jose based role. Our ranges for each role and job level are based on a variety of factors including candidate experience expertise and geographic location and may vary from the amounts listed above. The role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes : medical dental vision life and disability insurance 401(k) retirement plan flexible spending & health savings account paid holidays paid time off and other company benefits.

San Jose pay range

$148800 $178500 USD

The estimated base salary range for this role is noted below for our office location in Draper UT. Additionally this role is eligible to participate in BILLs bonus and equity plan. Our ranges for each role and job level are based on a variety of factors including candidate experience expertise and geographic location and may vary from the amounts listed above. The role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes : medical dental vision life and disability insurance 401(k) retirement plan flexible spending & health savings account paid holidays paid time off and other company benefits.

Draper UT pay range

$126500 $151700 USD

Whats in it for you

Redefining how businesses automate their work is a fast-paced exciting and fun environment. But we also have benefits and perks to ensure the magic isnt only experienced by our customers but by our employees as well.

Here is a preview of some of the amazing benefits here at BILL :

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BILL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe our best ideas come from the unique stories perspectives and experiences of our team members. We welcome people of all backgrounds abilities and identities to bring their authentic selves and contribute to our culture.

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Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Kubernetes,FMEA,Continuous Improvement,Elasticsearch,Go,Root cause Analysis,Maximo,CMMS,Maintenance,Mechanical Engineering,Manufacturing,Troubleshooting

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1