Senior Database Reliability Engineer (oracle & Automation Focus)

Bill.com Bill.com · Fintech · Draper, UT +1 · Engineering

Senior Database Reliability Engineer with deep expertise in Oracle on AWS, focusing on automation and Infrastructure as Code to manage and enhance mission-critical database systems for a Fintech company.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the Subject Matter Expert responsible for managing, optimizing, and ensuring the stability of our Oracle and cloud-native ecosystems.
  2. Pivot our stack toward full automation, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and seamless scaling.
  3. Collaborate closely with our Systems Engineers and Architects to design, implement, and scale the database engines that power the BILL suite of applications.
  4. Write code to eliminate manual toil and tackle complex challenges involving large datasets to drive business results.
  5. Apply an SDLC approach to infrastructure changes (CI/CD pipelines, GitLab/GitHub).

Skills

Required

  • Oracle (19c or later)
  • performance tuning (AWR, ASH, execution plans)
  • security
  • access control
  • AWS (RDS Custom or EC2)
  • Terraform
  • Python (boto3, automation frameworks)
  • Oracle GoldenGate
  • GitOps
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • GitLab/GitHub
  • Foglight
  • DataDog
  • Splunk
  • CloudWatch

Nice to have

  • OCP or OCM credentials
  • Debezium
  • DynamoDB
  • AWS Certified Database - Specialty
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

What the JD emphasized

  • automation-first engineer
  • writing code to eliminate manual toil
  • Deep Oracle Expertise: 6+ years of experience in database engineering with a primary focus on Oracle (19c or later)
  • AWS Experience: 3+ years managing mission-critical Oracle databases on AWS (RDS Custom or EC2)
  • Mandatory Automation Skills: Proven proficiency in EITHER Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (writing custom modules, state management) OR advanced scripting/development using Python (boto3, automation frameworks). Candidates must be able to demonstrate code samples.