Engineering Manager-Database Reliability

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager – Database Reliability based in the United States.** This role offers the opportunity to lead a high-impact database reliability function supporting a rapidly scaling financial technology platform. You will manage and mentor a distributed team of database engineers responsible for ensuring critical systems remain secure, resilient, and highly available. The position combines technical leadership, people management, and operational excellence to solve complex scalability challenges. You will help shape database architecture, reliability practices, and engineering processes that directly impact millions of users. Working across infrastructure, product, and security teams, you will drive improvements in performance, monitoring, and system resilience. This is an opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven environment where reliable technology enables greater financial access. ### Accountabilities: As the Engineering Manager – Database Reliability, you will lead the strategy, execution, and growth of database reliability initiatives while supporting a globally distributed engineering team. - Lead, mentor, and develop a team of database reliability engineers through coaching, performance management, career development, and technical guidance. - Support engineers in designing, maintaining, and evolving reliable, scalable, and high-performance database systems across multiple environments. - Drive operational excellence by improving incident response processes, postmortems, capacity planning, load testing, and reliability practices. - Partner with infrastructure, product, security, and engineering teams to deliver database platform improvements and reliability-focused solutions. - Establish and promote best practices for database monitoring, cost optimization, performance tuning, replication, backups, migrations, and disaster recovery. - Oversee mission-critical production databases and ensure systems are prepared to support rapid growth and increasing user demand. - Participate in hiring efforts by identifying staffing needs, designing interview processes, evaluating candidates, and helping grow the engineering organization. - Help define and strengthen database reliability culture, standards, and long-term technical strategy. ## Requirements: The ideal candidate brings strong engineering leadership experience, deep database expertise, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-growing, distributed environment. - At least 5 years of experience managing engineering teams focused on databases, storage, infrastructure, or related reliability domains. - Demonstrated experience leading people through coaching, mentorship, performance evaluations, and career growth initiatives. - Strong project management skills, including prioritization, roadmap execution, deadline management, and cross-functional communication. - Experience designing and improving engineering processes such as on-call rotations, incident management, postmortems, capacity planning, and operational workflows. - Proven experience running mission-critical databases in production, including replication, backups, migrations, high availability, and disaster recovery. - Strong knowledge of database technologies, particularly PostgreSQL and distributed database systems such as CockroachDB. - Experience working with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure environments (preferably GCP). - Ability to work effectively in globally distributed teams and collaborate across multiple technical disciplines. - Experience hiring and scaling engineering teams, including defining hiring plans and evaluating technical talent. - Willingness to travel internationally approximately once per year for team collaboration and user-focused learning. - Availability to work within a timezone between GMT-1 and GMT+3. ## Bene…