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Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Frontline Education·Wayne, Pennsylvania
Job functions:
$95k - $125k/yr
Hybrid
Bachelor's degree
501-1,000 employees
Job Description
Description
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Location
Hybrid to Wayne, PA or Naperville, IL, with remote consideration
How You'll Contribute to Our Mission
At Frontline Education, our vision is Every school thriving. Every community stronger, and our mission is we transform how schools work, so every educator and student succeeds.
We're looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer who is passionate about building resilient, secure, and scalable database platforms that power the applications educators rely on every day. As part of our Data Engineering team, you'll help ensure our production database environments remain highly available, performant, and secure while continuously modernizing how we operate through automation, observability, and AI-enabled engineering practices.
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex operational challenges, embraces continuous improvement, and believes that reliable technology creates better experiences for our customers. You'll help shape the future of our database platform while contributing to an AI-first organization where technology amplifies human expertise.
How You'll Drive Success
- Develop a deep understanding of Frontline's production database environments, applications, and operational processes across AWS and on-premises platforms.
- Design, manage, and optimize production database environments to maximize availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Build and maintain database infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Continuously identify opportunities to automate repetitive operational work using AI-enabled tools and modern engineering practices.
- Implement and maintain backup, recovery, disaster recovery, high availability, and database observability solutions using metrics, logs, and traces.
- Maintain database security through patching, encryption, access controls, and compliance with organizational standards.
- Partner closely with Development, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and Client Support teams to resolve production issues and improve overall platform reliability.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation while taking ownership of production database operations.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and operational practices that improve scalability, resiliency, automation, and long-term maintainability.
- Serve as a technical owner for one or more database platforms by mentoring teammates, influencing architecture, sharing knowledge, and driving operational excellence.
- Build trusted partnerships across engineering teams by collaborating openly, sharing expertise, and always keeping customer outcomes at the center of technical decisions.
What You Bring to Help Us Grow
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Five or more years administering production database management systems in highly available 24x7 environments.
- Demonstrated expertise with at least two enterprise database platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM Db2, or MongoDB.
- Experience with one or more additional database technologies.
- Three or more years automating database or infrastructure operations using scripting, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Passion for continuous learning and applying emerging technologies thoughtfully to improve engineering outcomes.
What You'll Need to Thrive
- Experience managing production database performance, availability, security, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery.
- Strong SQL expertise, including performance tuning, query optimization, and troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting high-transaction production systems.
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering organizations while balancing operational excellence with customer needs.
- Experience managing AWS-hosted databases.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash, AWS CLI, or similar automation technologies.
- Linux and Windows administration experience.
- Knowledge of replication, clustering, partitioning, scalability, and high-availability technologies.
- Experience using database observability and monitoring platforms.
- Familiarity with ETL, data warehousing, or archival solutions.
- Experience working within Agile, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering environments.
- A mindset that embraces ownership, collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement while using AI responsibly to enhance engineering effectiveness.
Our Mission, Our People, Our Purpose
At Frontline Education, we're reimagining what's possible by becoming an AI-first organization, transforming how we think, work, and serve the educators who shape our schools every day. By using AI in thoughtful, practical ways, we're creating tools that help educators save time, gain insights, and focus more on what matters most: their students.
Our vision is Every school thriving. Every community stronger.
Our mission is We transform how schools work, so every educator and student succeeds.
Our values guide how we work every day:
- Own It by taking accountability, acting with integrity, and delivering meaningful results.
- Be Better Together by collaborating openly, sharing knowledge, and supporting one another's growth.
- Obsess Over Customer Success by earning trust, solving for outcomes, and making decisions with educators and students in mind.
As part of our team, you'll be expected and empowered to build and apply AI capabilities that grow with you, because at Frontline Education, technology amplifies what matters most: the human drive to learn, improve, and make a difference.
How We Support Growth, Balance, and Well-Being
- Personalized Time Off: Take time when it's needed most, whether that's a family vacation, a reset day, or simply time to rest and refocus.
- Paid Sick Time: Separate, dedicated sick leave to care for yourself or loved ones.
- Volunteer Time Off: Paid time to give back and support causes that matter to you.
- Ten Paid Holidays: Enjoy meaningful moments and traditions throughout the year. Our Philosophy: We believe time away from work helps you bring your best self to it.
Continuous Learning and Growth
- World-Class Learning Access through platforms like LinkedIn Learning.
- Leadership and Technical Skill Building to help you grow your career.
- AI Empowerment using OpenAI tools to strengthen your AI fluency and unlock new ways of solving problems.
- Tuition Reimbursement for eligible education programs. Ongoing Learning Culture through company-led sessions on AI, inclusion, leadership, and industry innovation.
Health, Happiness, and Purpose
- Wellness initiatives supporting physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Comprehensive health and financial benefits.
- A culture where every team member is encouraged to learn, grow, and thrive personally and professionally.
Compensation & Benefits
The full base compensation range for the level I is: $95,000-$125,000
Frontline Education offers a competitive compensation package that reflects experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.
Frontline Education offers a competitive compensation package that reflects experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.
Eligible employees may also receive:
- Annual bonus opportunities
- 401(k) with company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (where applicable)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible work options
- Personalized Time Off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Wellness programs
- Employee Assistance Program
Inclusion, Belonging & Equal Opportunity
Frontline Education is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their best work. We encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.
Interview Process & Data Privacy
As part of our interview process, Frontline Education uses video conferencing tools that include photo capture and may include automated transcription features. A screenshot or photo will be taken at the start of the interview for internal identification and record-keeping purposes only, and transcription may be used to support note-taking and evaluation consistency.
These materials are used solely by our recruiting and hiring teams, stored securely, and are never shared outside the hiring process. Candidates may opt out of transcription at any time by notifying their recruiter in advance. Frontline processes this information in accordance with applicable privacy laws and only for legitimate recruitment and hiring purposes.
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Frontline Education
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Added 1w ago501-1,000 employees
Job functions:
$95k - $125k/yr
Hybrid
Bachelor's degree
Job Description
Description
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Location
Hybrid to Wayne, PA or Naperville, IL, with remote consideration
How You'll Contribute to Our Mission
At Frontline Education, our vision is Every school thriving. Every community stronger, and our mission is we transform how schools work, so every educator and student succeeds.
We're looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer who is passionate about building resilient, secure, and scalable database platforms that power the applications educators rely on every day. As part of our Data Engineering team, you'll help ensure our production database environments remain highly available, performant, and secure while continuously modernizing how we operate through automation, observability, and AI-enabled engineering practices.
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex operational challenges, embraces continuous improvement, and believes that reliable technology creates better experiences for our customers. You'll help shape the future of our database platform while contributing to an AI-first organization where technology amplifies human expertise.
How You'll Drive Success
- Develop a deep understanding of Frontline's production database environments, applications, and operational processes across AWS and on-premises platforms.
- Design, manage, and optimize production database environments to maximize availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Build and maintain database infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Continuously identify opportunities to automate repetitive operational work using AI-enabled tools and modern engineering practices.
- Implement and maintain backup, recovery, disaster recovery, high availability, and database observability solutions using metrics, logs, and traces.
- Maintain database security through patching, encryption, access controls, and compliance with organizational standards.
- Partner closely with Development, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and Client Support teams to resolve production issues and improve overall platform reliability.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation while taking ownership of production database operations.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and operational practices that improve scalability, resiliency, automation, and long-term maintainability.
- Serve as a technical owner for one or more database platforms by mentoring teammates, influencing architecture, sharing knowledge, and driving operational excellence.
- Build trusted partnerships across engineering teams by collaborating openly, sharing expertise, and always keeping customer outcomes at the center of technical decisions.
What You Bring to Help Us Grow
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Five or more years administering production database management systems in highly available 24x7 environments.
- Demonstrated expertise with at least two enterprise database platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM Db2, or MongoDB.
- Experience with one or more additional database technologies.
- Three or more years automating database or infrastructure operations using scripting, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Passion for continuous learning and applying emerging technologies thoughtfully to improve engineering outcomes.
What You'll Need to Thrive
- Experience managing production database performance, availability, security, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery.
- Strong SQL expertise, including performance tuning, query optimization, and troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting high-transaction production systems.
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering organizations while balancing operational excellence with customer needs.
- Experience managing AWS-hosted databases.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash, AWS CLI, or similar automation technologies.
- Linux and Windows administration experience.
- Knowledge of replication, clustering, partitioning, scalability, and high-availability technologies.
- Experience using database observability and monitoring platforms.
- Familiarity with ETL, data warehousing, or archival solutions.
- Experience working within Agile, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering environments.
- A mindset that embraces ownership, collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement while using AI responsibly to enhance engineering effectiveness.
Our Mission, Our People, Our Purpose
At Frontline Education, we're reimagining what's possible by becoming an AI-first organization, transforming how we think, work, and serve the educators who shape our schools every day. By using AI in thoughtful, practical ways, we're creating tools that help educators save time, gain insights, and focus more on what matters most: their students.
Our vision is Every school thriving. Every community stronger.
Our mission is We transform how schools work, so every educator and student succeeds.
Our values guide how we work every day:
- Own It by taking accountability, acting with integrity, and delivering meaningful results.
- Be Better Together by collaborating openly, sharing knowledge, and supporting one another's growth.
- Obsess Over Customer Success by earning trust, solving for outcomes, and making decisions with educators and students in mind.
As part of our team, you'll be expected and empowered to build and apply AI capabilities that grow with you, because at Frontline Education, technology amplifies what matters most: the human drive to learn, improve, and make a difference.
How We Support Growth, Balance, and Well-Being
- Personalized Time Off: Take time when it's needed most, whether that's a family vacation, a reset day, or simply time to rest and refocus.
- Paid Sick Time: Separate, dedicated sick leave to care for yourself or loved ones.
- Volunteer Time Off: Paid time to give back and support causes that matter to you.
- Ten Paid Holidays: Enjoy meaningful moments and traditions throughout the year. Our Philosophy: We believe time away from work helps you bring your best self to it.
Continuous Learning and Growth
- World-Class Learning Access through platforms like LinkedIn Learning.
- Leadership and Technical Skill Building to help you grow your career.
- AI Empowerment using OpenAI tools to strengthen your AI fluency and unlock new ways of solving problems.
- Tuition Reimbursement for eligible education programs. Ongoing Learning Culture through company-led sessions on AI, inclusion, leadership, and industry innovation.
Health, Happiness, and Purpose
- Wellness initiatives supporting physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Comprehensive health and financial benefits.
- A culture where every team member is encouraged to learn, grow, and thrive personally and professionally.
Compensation & Benefits
The full base compensation range for the level I is: $95,000-$125,000
Frontline Education offers a competitive compensation package that reflects experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.
Frontline Education offers a competitive compensation package that reflects experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.
Eligible employees may also receive:
- Annual bonus opportunities
- 401(k) with company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (where applicable)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible work options
- Personalized Time Off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Wellness programs
- Employee Assistance Program
Inclusion, Belonging & Equal Opportunity
Frontline Education is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their best work. We encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.
Interview Process & Data Privacy
As part of our interview process, Frontline Education uses video conferencing tools that include photo capture and may include automated transcription features. A screenshot or photo will be taken at the start of the interview for internal identification and record-keeping purposes only, and transcription may be used to support note-taking and evaluation consistency.
These materials are used solely by our recruiting and hiring teams, stored securely, and are never shared outside the hiring process. Candidates may opt out of transcription at any time by notifying their recruiter in advance. Frontline processes this information in accordance with applicable privacy laws and only for legitimate recruitment and hiring purposes.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior database reliability engineer jobs.
- 5 or more years of experience managing production relational or distributed database systems
- Deep expertise in at least one major database engine such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle
- Proficiency with database observability tools including Datadog, Prometheus, or equivalent
- Experience designing and testing backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies
- Ability to write and optimize complex SQL queries and tune execution plans
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible for database provisioning
Tips for Your Senior Database Reliability Engineer Job Search
Quantify reliability wins on your resume
Recruiters for senior database reliability engineer roles want numbers. Replace vague statements with metrics: replication lag reduced, query latency cut, recovery time objectives met. A resume that shows concrete SLO and SLA outcomes moves faster through technical screening than one listing tools alone.
Highlight your incident postmortem contributions
Senior roles demand ownership of failures, not just fixes. On your resume and in interviews, reference specific postmortems you authored or led. Hiring managers for database reliability positions treat blameless postmortem culture as a signal of engineering maturity, so make yours visible.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists senior database reliability engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by your primary database engine
Senior database reliability engineer postings differ sharply by stack. A role built around Aurora PostgreSQL requires a different conversation than one centered on Cassandra or CockroachDB. Targeting openings that match your deepest engine experience shortens your interview cycle and strengthens your negotiating position.
Prepare a live troubleshooting walkthrough
Technical interviews for senior database reliability engineers routinely include a live debugging or query-tuning exercise. Practice narrating your diagnostic process out loud, including how you read execution plans, check replication health, or isolate lock contention, before you sit in the actual interview.
Negotiate scope before negotiating compensation
Before discussing pay, clarify whether the role owns on-call rotations solo or shares them, and whether you have authority to enforce schema change processes. Database reliability scope varies widely across companies, and a narrower mandate is often a signal to push for higher base compensation.
Senior Database Reliability Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most senior database reliability engineers?
The companies hiring the most senior database reliability engineers right now include Okta, Okta, and Coupa, with the largest share of openings in California, Washington, and Ohio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in companies running high-transaction cloud infrastructure.
How many senior database reliability engineer jobs are remote?
About 75% of senior database reliability engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting strong demand for async-capable engineers. Roles focused on cloud-native databases and observability tooling tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions requiring hands-on data center or on-premises storage work are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a senior database reliability engineer?
Start by building a foundation in database administration or backend engineering, then deepen expertise in a specific engine like PostgreSQL or Cassandra. Move into reliability-focused work by owning on-call rotations, writing postmortems, and improving SLOs. Seniority comes from leading cross-team incidents, designing replication architectures, and demonstrating ownership of production database health end to end.
Can you get hired as a senior database reliability engineer with limited experience?
Hiring managers rarely waive the seniority bar outright, but engineers who have led a high-impact reliability project, a major migration, or a significant incident response often move through screening even without a matching job title on their resume. Frame your experience around outcomes: uptime improved, recovery time shortened, or query performance measurably changed.
What does the senior database reliability engineer interview process look like?
Most processes run in three to four stages. A recruiter screen is followed by a technical phone interview covering database internals and past incidents. Then comes a live debugging or architecture design session, often including a real or simulated production scenario. Final rounds typically include a systems design conversation with staff or principal engineers and a cross-functional interview with platform or SRE leadership.
Where can I find and apply to senior database reliability engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to senior database reliability engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your database engine experience and reliability background, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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