Coupa

Coupa

Lead Database Reliability Engineer - 11606

San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Sponsorship not specified$142k-$199kDetected 35 days ago
PythonRubyBashGitPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBAWSGCPAzureTerraformMachine LearningLeadershipCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers.
  • Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa.

Responsibilities

  • Lead database architecture and design initiatives, delivering scalable, high-performance, reliable solutions aligned with business needs and long-term strategic goals.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues, providing technical leadership, guidance, and operational support, including participation in on-call rotations.
  • Deep expertise in MySQL, including database design, implementation, configuration, security, troubleshooting, maintenance, backup/recovery, replication, and performance tuning.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Azure or GCP experience is a plus.
  • include experience with PostgreSQL or MongoDB, configuration management tools (Chef/Puppet), Terraform, GitHub-based workflows, and relevant database administration or automation certifications.
  • 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

Compensation

  • Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.

Benefits

  • Develop, maintain, and enhance database monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery systems to ensure system health, data integrity, and high availability.

Company info

  • 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. 🔹
  • We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence. 🔹
  • Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.

Equal opportunity

  • #LI-Remote #LI-TC1 Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment.

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