DBRE Team Lead

Were looking for an experienced hands-on Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) Team Leader to head Wixs core DBRE this role youll be responsible for the reliability scalability and performance of Wixs large-scale database infrastructure and data platforms while leading and mentoring a team of DBREs.
Youll bring together strong technical expertise and people leadership  defining the vision and standards for database reliability guiding architectural and system design decisions and driving operational excellence across our production environments.

In your day-to-day you will:

•  Lead mentor and grow a team of DBREs providing technical guidance and career development 
• Define and drive the teams roadmap for database reliability availability scalability and cost efficiency
• Own hundreds of production database clusters (MySQL MongoDB etc.) at petabyte scale on Cloud platform
• Oversee the design and optimization of data models schemas and database access patterns used by core Wix services
• Establish and promote best practices standards and methodologies for database design operations observability and incident management
• Collaborate with other Infra Security FinOps and R&D teams to shape Wixs databases strategy and long-term technology direction
• Encourage the use of AI and ML-driven tools and analytics for anomaly detection capacity forecasting performance optimization and team dev velocity
•  Promote automation in database provisioning configuration and operations

Qualifications :

10 years of hands-on 24/7 production experience with MySQL MongoDB ElasticSearch and/or other RDBMS/NoSQL data stores 

Proven team leadership or technical authority experience in large-scale database initiatives 

Strong expertise in databases solution architecture HA backups DR and performance tuning 

Practical experience with AWS and/or GCP data products and cloud-native architectures

Deep knowledge of Linux systems

Passion for automation and reliability engineering

Strong background with monitoring and observability tools and methodologies

Excellent communication and collaboration skills across multiple domains

Additional Information :

Wixs Database Platform Group consists of talented database and DevOps engineers who manage hundreds of MySQL MongoDB and ElasticSearch production clusters totaling petabytes of data hosted on AWS. The DBRE team sits at the heart of this group focusing on reliability performance and operational excellence of Wixs data platforms. We partner closely with Systems Engineers DevOps Security and R&D teams to build scale and safeguard the data infrastructure that powers Wixs products.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time