Senior Application DBA – Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) (all humans)

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Tribe SRE is looking for a Senior Application DBA (DBRE) to improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of database-backed applications.

This is not a traditional infrastructure-focused DBA role. As a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE), you will work at the intersection of application engineering, DevOps, and database engineering, ensuring that critical services remain performant, reliable, and scalable.

You will take an application-centric approach to database reliability: understanding real workloads and critical user journeys, identifying database-related performance bottlenecks, and working with engineering teams to address issues at their source.

You will also help evolve database operations toward a workload-driven, SLO-oriented engineering model, enabling teams through automation, engineering standards, and database best practices.

What to do:

• Analyze and optimize real application workloads, connecting user-facing