Lead Database Reliability Engineer - 11606

Job description

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins. **Why join Coupa?** - **Pioneering Technology:** At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend. - **Collaborative Culture:** We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence. - **Global Impact:** Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other. Learn more on [Life at Coupa](https://insde.co/uzoy) blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa. **The Impact of a Lead Database Reliability Engineer at Coupa:** As a Lead Database Reliability Engineer, you will focus primarily on Cloud based MySQL environments. You will be responsible for designing, automating, and maintaining reliable database infrastructure that supports mission-critical applications. As a senior member of the team, you’ll be a hands-on technical leader—driving automation, mentoring engineers, and partnering with development and infrastructure teams to deliver resilient, secure, and performant data platforms. ### What You’ll Do - Lead database architecture and design initiatives, delivering scalable, high-performance, reliable solutions aligned with business needs and long-term strategic goals. - Leverage AI/ML technologies to improve database operations through performance optimization, capacity planning, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and automation. - Develop, maintain, and enhance database monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery systems to ensure system health, data integrity, and high availability. - Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues, providing technical leadership, guidance, and operational support, including participation in on-call rotations. - Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies by conducting regular database audits, assessments, and governance reviews. - Collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams, mentor junior database engineers, stay current on emerging database technologies and best practices, and remain flexible to support global teams across multiple time zones. ### What You Will Bring to Coupa - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) with 8+ years of hands-on database administration, management, and performance optimization experience. - Deep expertise in MySQL, including database design, implementation, configuration, security, troubleshooting, maintenance, backup/recovery, replication, and performance tuning. - Strong automation and cloud experience, including scripting with Bash, Python, or Ruby and managing large-scale AWS environments, with knowledge of cloud-native database services such as RDS and Aurora; Azure or GCP experience is a plus. - Experience building and maintaining database observability solutions, including monitoring, dashboards, and alerting using tools such as PMM, New Relic, VividCortex, or similar database management platforms. - Expertise in high-availability and disaster recovery solutions, including failover clustering, Orchestrator, and strategies that ensure database reliability, resilience, and business continuity. - Preferred qualifications include experience with PostgreSQL or MongoDB, configuration management tools (Chef/Puppet), Terraform, GitHub-based workflows, and relevant database administration or automation certifications.