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full-timeStaff Database Reliability Engineer
Checkr · Denver, Colorado, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
Checkr operates a data platform focused on AI-powered verification services for employment, housing, and transportation sectors. As a Staff Database Reliability Engineer, you will lead the architectural strategy and operational reliability of the company's core data stores. This role involves managing high-scale distributed database fleets, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB, across multi-cloud environments. You will be responsible for capacity planning, financial forecasting, and implementing high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Day-to-day tasks include automating infrastructure via Terraform and Terragrunt, optimizing database performance at the query and instance levels, and establishing fleet-wide data governance standards. You will partner with SRE and product engineering teams to build observability tools and lead incident resolution for critical database infrastructure. This position is suited for a seasoned technical leader with over a decade of experience in database administration and architecture. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in AWS database ecosystems, a strong background in infrastructure-as-code, and a proven ability to mentor engineering teams while driving long-term technical vision in a high-growth, security-conscious environment.
About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, and Anthropic. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company . About the team/role Reporting to the Manager, DevOps Engineering, you will lead the architecture, reliability, and operational excellence of Checkr’s core data stores. Checkr offers fantastic AI enablement, and you'll use AI tooling throughout your day-to-day. In this role, you will own database capacity planning, financial forecasting, high availability, disaster recovery, and infrastructure-as-code automation across high-scale distributed data stores. Partnering closely with Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, Core Services, and Product Engineering teams, you will establish fleet-wide data governance and performance standards that power Checkr's continuous platform growth. What you'll do Lead and execute the architectural design, high availability strategies including multi-region, and business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions across Checkr’s multi-cloud database fleet. Inspire and drive high standards across the team by mentoring and growing engineers. Drive the long-term vision and strategy of database architecture at Checkr; communicate that strategy in a way that resonates with engineers and upper leadership, and propose projects that move the company towards that vision Ensure the security of highly sensitive data through encryption and security-first architecture Provision, scale, and maintain cloud database systems across production, staging, and sandbox environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt). Optimize database performance at the query, schema, connection, and instance levels across PostgreSQL or MySQL, and MongoDB workloads. Partner with Site Reliability Engineering to build proactive observability, automated alerting, and diagnostic tooling for database health and performance metrics. Automate operational toil, maintenance workflows, schema migrations, and backup lifecycle policies to improve reliability and engineering velocity. Lead incident diagnosis, resolution, and post-incident reviews for critical database alerts and outages across customer-serving infrastructure. What you bring A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience) 10+ years of experience designing, administering, and scaling relational and non-relational database storage architectures in production environments. Deep expertise managing and tuning MongoDB and PostgreSQL or MySQL database topologies at high volume and scale. Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures and software design principles, and the ability to apply them to solve technical challenges. Extensive hands-on experience with AWS database and storage ecosystems, including RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, MongoDB Atlas, and S3. Demonstrated track record of automating cloud infrastructure and database operations using Terraform, Terragrunt, and modern scripting languages. Strong technical leadership skills with a proven ability to guide engineering teams through database schema design, zero-downtime migrations (e.g., gh-ost), and security compliance standards. An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes. #LI-TD1 Pay Transparency Disclosure We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website . On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA) $195,000 — $229,000 USD On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver, CO) $165,000 — $194,000 USD What We Offer A fast-paced and collaborative environment Learning and development allowance Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services Flexible PTO policy Monthly wellness stipend At Checkr, we believe an in office work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile. Individu
| Role | Staff Database Reliability Engineer |
|---|---|
| Company | Checkr |
| Location | Denver, Colorado, United States; San Francisco, California, United States |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-26 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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