Sr. Database Engineer, Site Reliability

Sr. Database Engineer, Site Reliability

Job

Location Bristol, Connecticut, United States / New York, New York, United States

Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Date posted
May 12, 2026

This is an on-site role requiring 4 days in-person at the designated office location.

Join DEEP&T as a Senior Reliability Engineer, where you will analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements and new products for use in local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs. This role delivers large or highly complex software programs and systems that are critical to the organization’s technology platforms and commercial applications.

By leveraging in-depth knowledge of current programming languages and technologies, the Senior Reliability Engineer will write code, complete programming tasks, and perform testing and debugging of applications. The individual will interact with users to define system requirements and necessary modifications, conceive and implement software components, fixes, enhancements, and new systems. Their work directly impacts the organization by driving improvements in product quality, operational efficiency, and technical innovation, influencing future projects and technical direction.

We’re looking for an individual who can apply software engineering principles to database engineering and administration to build processes and automation to help deliver infrastructure faster, safer, more consistently, and with the right level of observability required to operate at scale.

• Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DEEP&T database infrastructure is available 24/7/365.
• Leverage software development and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure.
• Participates in setting the architectural direction for database platforms and projects.
• Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
• Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing.
• Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting and administration.
• Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards.
• Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security.
• Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery through infrastructure as code and configuration management.
• Provide relevant insights of data store infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
• Maintain thorough and well-written documentation.
• Participate in live event support and on-call rotation.
• May provide oversight and direction to junior team members.
• Build relationships with engineering teams and leads.

Basic Experience

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of related work experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure SQL MI.
• Fundamental understanding of Microsoft SQL Server database internals.
• Experience working in Agile software development.
• Experience with source control management tools (Git, Git Lab, Git Hub).
• Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
• General understanding and experience with Windows operating system, network, and containers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
• Experience in database availability monitoring and status reporting using native monitoring tools.
• Well-versed in SQL Server backup, restore, and recovery strategies.
• Experience keeping a large environment compliant by deploying SQL Server patches and upgrades.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others.

Preferred Experience

• Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role.
• Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in Azure and Amazon Web Services.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud Formation).
• Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple life cycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with the configuration and implementation of SQL Server Always On availability groups.
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef).
• Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams providing guidance in SQL Server best practices.
• Experience with proactively identifying problems/areas of improvement and designing creative solutions to successfully remediate…