Sr Manager, Database Engineering

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LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC) is the parent company of LendingClub Bank National Association Member FDIC. We are the leading digital marketplace bank in the U.S. having helped our nearly 5 million members secure over $90 billion in loans to refinance high-cost debt and achieve their financial goals. Members today have mobile-first access to a growing range of products and services designed to work seamlessly together to deliver value in new ways. Everyone deserves a better financial future and our team is committed to making that a reality. Join the Club!

About the Role

What Youll Do

• Define and own the database engineering strategy and roadmap ensuring the platform is reliable performant scalable and aligned with business growth
• Lead mentor and develop a team of Database Engineers fostering a culture of operational excellence accountability and continuous improvement
• Partner with application platform and data engineering teams to establish standards for database architecture schema governance and query performance
• Drive initiatives to improve availability resiliency security and observability across production and non-production database environments
• Champion automation tooling and self-service capabilities that reduce operational overhead and enable developers to safely and efficiently work with database systems
• Act as a strategic advisor to engineering leadership on database architecture capacity planning risk management and cost optimization
• Ensure database platforms meet regulatory security and compliance requirements appropriate for a digital bank

About You

• 2 years of experience leading and developing engineering teams with 8 years of hands-on experience in database engineering or DBA roles
• Deep expertise in at least one major relational database platform (Oracle PostgreSQL or MySQL) including performance tuning replication and high-availability architectures
• Proven experience designing operating and scaling high-volume OLTP systems in production environments
• Strong working knowledge of AWS infrastructure and managed database services (e.g. RDS EC2 VPC IAM S3)
• Experience using Python or similar languages to build automation tooling and operational workflows
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across engineering product security and operations teams
• Bachelors degree in a related field; or equivalent work experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Prior ownership of mission-critical systems with strict uptime and reliability requirements
• Hands-on experience designing disaster recovery backup and multi-region scalability strategies in cloud environments
• Experience working in financial services fintech or other regulated industries

Work Location
San Francisco

The above locations are eligible offices for this locations have been determined to foster in-person collaboration with this roles team or the related business lines. We utilize a hybrid work model and our teams are in-office Tuesdays Wednesdays and -person attendance is essential for this roles success and remote placement will not be offers relocation based on actual job level.

Time Zone Requirements
Primarily PT

While the position will primarily work local hours LendingClub is headquartered in Pacific Time and our ideal candidate will be flexible working across time zones when necessary.

Travel Requirements
As needed travel to LendingClub offices and/or other locations as needed.

Compensation
The target base salary range for this position is 00. The base salary of the role will be determined by job-related knowledge experience education skills and location. Base salary is just one part of LendingClubs Total Rewards package. You may also be eligible for long-term awards (equity) and an annual bonus (which is based on company performance employee performance and eligible earnings).

Were creating new financial services solutions for our members based on fairness simplicity and heart and we treat our employees the same way. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision plans for employees and their families 401(k) match health and wellness programs flexible time off policies for salaried employees up to 16 weeks paid parental leave and more.

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