Database Reliability Engineer IV

Pager Duty, Inc. (NYSE:

PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, Pager Duty is essential for delivering always‑on digital experiences to modern businesses.

Join us. At Pager Duty, you'll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award‑winning workplace.

In this role, you will develop standards and practices for our back‑end data storage and data streaming systems. You will also build tools to enable engineers to easily interact with and optimize their database systems. This role offers a thrilling opportunity to contribute to scaling the Pager Duty Platform. The ideal candidate has coding/scripting abilities, Kafka expertise, experience with AWS, and a solid background in Site Reliability Engineering or DBRE in high‑scale environments.

If you have a track record of solving complex problems with automation and a keen interest in making database systems more approachable to others, you’re the ideal candidate.

• Partner with engineering stakeholders to design and deliver reliable, scalable, secure, and performant data platforms.
• Continuously strive to improve the customer experience: full lifecycle support (creation, development, deployment, retirement), observability, flexible connectivity, and monitoring.
• Stay current on technology trends to deliver innovative tools and approaches to interesting problems.
• Share your expertise with the entire engineering organization.
• Participate in a 24/7 on‑call rotation. (Pager Duty manages our on‑call schedules.)

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DBRE, or software development.
• 3+ years of experience with database management systems such as MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, Dynamo
  
  DB, Cassandra, etc.
• Experience with one or more languages such as Ruby, Python, or Golang.
• Experience working on cloud‑native infrastructure in AWS.
• Experience with a container scheduler platform, preferably Kubernetes.

• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) for managing database and cloud resources.
• Experience with data streaming solutions such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, etc.
• Knowledge of Kafka‑related tools and frameworks (Apache Zoo Keeper, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, or KSQL).
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and logging platforms for databases (e.g., Data Dog, New Relic, Grafana Logs).
• Knowledge of configuration management systems like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet for database infrastructure management.
• Experience automating database releases, CI/CD systems, and relevant tools (e.g., Jenkins, Circle
  
  CI, Travis CI, Buildkite), focusing on performance and reliability.

This role is expected to come into our Atlanta office 2 days per week.

The base salary range for this position is $150,000 – $252,000 USD. The role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible work arrangements
• Company equity*
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)*
• Retirement or pension plan*
• Generous paid vacation time
• Paid holidays and sick leave
• Dutonian Wellness Days & Hibernation Duty – company wide paid days off in addition to PTO
• Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non‑pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*
• Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
• Company‑wide hack weeks
• Mental wellness programs
• Eligibility may vary by role, region, and tenure

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Software Development

We embrace and encourage in‑person working as an integral part of our culture. Both our employees and external research tell us that co‑located collaboration strengthens connections, drives innovation, and accelerates learning.

Pager Duty, Inc. (NYSE:

PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. The Pager Duty…