Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Postgres
UNITED STATES
October 22, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Docusign
Location: Seattle, Washington
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: Washington: $158,300.00 – $232,575.00 base salary + Bonus + RSUs

About the Role

Docusign is looking for a seasoned Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to design, operate, and continuously improve highly available PostgreSQL platforms across cloud and production environments. In this role, you will own database reliability standards, architecture patterns, operational runbooks, service-level objectives, and recovery strategies while partnering closely with application, infrastructure, security, and platform engineering teams.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Design and Operate Highly Available Environments: Design, operate, and continuously improve highly available PostgreSQL environments across cloud and production platforms.
  • Set Reliability Standards: Define and implement database reliability standards, reference architectures, operational runbooks, and service-level objectives.
  • Performance Tuning and Optimization: Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, and storage growth management.
  • Disaster Recovery and Backup Management: Establish and maintain backup, restore, point-in-time recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
  • High Availability and Replication: Design, validate, and test replication, failover, partitioning, connection pooling, and high-availability solutions.
  • Automation and Tooling: Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, upgrades, patching, schema changes, maintenance, and decommissioning.
  • Incident Response and On-Call: Participate in incident response and on-call rotations, improving detection, diagnosis, mitigation, and prevention of database-related incidents.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Software Development Experience: 8+ years of hands-on software development experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C#, C++, or Java.
  • PostgreSQL Production Experience: 5+ years of experience operating PostgreSQL in large-scale, highly available production environments.
  • Deep Database Knowledge: Experience with PostgreSQL internals, transactions, locking, write-ahead logging (WAL), vacuuming, autovacuum, replication, and recovery.
  • Performance Analysis: Experience with database performance analysis, query plans, indexing, connection management, and workload optimization.
  • Disaster Recovery: Experience designing and validating backup, restore, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Experience with infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
  • Scripting Languages: Experience with Python, Go, Shell, or another scripting or programming language.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Experience in a Database Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, or production engineering role.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL operators, managed PostgreSQL services, Patroni, PgBouncer, or comparable technologies.
  • Experience operating multi-region or globally distributed database platforms.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes-based database deployments and GitOps practices.
  • Experience building internal platforms, APIs, or self-service workflows for database consumers.
  • Knowledge of database security, compliance controls, audit requirements, and threat modeling.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Paid Time Off: Earned time off and paid company holidays.
  • Paid Parental Leave: Up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption, or foster care placement.
  • Full Health Benefits Plans: Options for 100% employer-paid and minimum employee-contribution health plans from day one.
  • Retirement Plans: Select retirement and pension programs with potential employer contributions.
  • Learning and Development: Options for coaching, online courses, and education reimbursements.
  • Equity and Bonus: Eligible for a company bonus plan and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.

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