Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Credit Acceptance Corporation

Job Overview

Location

USA - Remote

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Ensure the availability, reliability, performance, and security of enterprise database systems supporting Credit Acceptance applications.
• Reduce operational toil through automation, enable secure, scalable database platforms, and empower engineering teams through self-service capabilities and DevOps integration.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and data teams to build and operate modern database platforms, support data replication and migration initiatives, and drive continuous improvements in reliability and efficiency.
• Platform Engineering & Automation: Design and implement automated database provisioning and configuration management, develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, build self-service database capabilities and platform APIs, implement event-driven automation and auto-remediation workflows, and establish policy-driven guardrails for database configuration, access, and compliance.
• Reliability, Availability & Resilience: Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), design and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) architectures, perform failover testing and resilience validation, lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews, and drive improvements in MTTD and MTTR.
• Performance & Scalability Engineering: Monitor and optimize database performance, query efficiency, and throughput, identify and resolve application-database performance bottlenecks, design for scalability and workload isolation, conduct capacity planning and forecasting, and optimize cost-performance efficiency in cloud environments.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks, define and track database golden signals, build dashboards for health, performance, and capacity trends, integrate telemetry into central observability platforms, and develop proactive alerting and anomaly detection.
• Data Replication & Migration: Design and manage replication strategies, implement and operate AWS DMS or equivalent tools, enable near real-time data movement across systems, troubleshoot replication lag and data consistency issues, and support large-scale database migrations.
• Security & Access Control: Implement least privilege, role-based access controls, enable Just-In-Time (JIT) access using PAM solutions, enforce secure access patterns and eliminate direct production DB access, manage credentials using centralized secrets management, ensure adherence to audit, compliance, and governance requirements, and support encryption standards.
• Database & Data Access Engineering: Support data modeling, indexing, partitioning, and schema optimization, demonstrate familiarity with modern database access technologies, design and promote Data Access Layer (DAL) architectures, and optimize data access patterns to improve performance and scalability.
• Developer Enablement & DevOps Integration: Manage database schema lifecycle using version-controlled tools, enable automated deployments and zero-downtime database changes, implement testing strategies for database changes, partner with engineering teams to improve database usage patterns, provide guidance on best practices, ORM usage, and performance tuning, and promote shift-left adoption of database design and reliability practices.
• Cloud Database Operations: Manage and support cloud database platforms, including AWS RDS / Aurora, DynamoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL.
• Other Responsibilities: Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years in database engineering / DBA / DBRE roles
• Strong experience in SQL, performance tuning, HA, backup, and recovery

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work

Skills & Technologies

Python

Express

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Senior

Remote

$104k-152k

Degree Required

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About Credit Acceptance Corporation

Credit Acceptance Corporation is a Michigan-based auto finance company founded in 1972. It provides financing programs to automobile dealers that enable them to sell vehicles to consumers, regardless of credit history. The company purchases consumer loans originated by dealers under its Portfolio and Purchase Programs, then services these receivables. Credit Acceptance operates across the United States and reports financial results through its Consumer Loan segment. The company generates revenue primarily through interest and fees on its portfolio of automobile loans.

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