Database Reliability Engineer

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

Why join Coupa?

🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.

🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.

🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other. 

What You'll Do:

• Assist in implementing best practices for database management, ensuring optimal performance and high availability.
• Continuously stay updated with emerging database trends, best practices, and automation technologies.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to support database operations and enhancements.
• Optimize database performance by analyzing queries, indexing strategies, and resource utilization.
• Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to proactively detect and address database issues.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database-related incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and business impact.
• Design and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies to safeguard data integrity.
• Perform regular audits and compliance checks to meet security and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide timely support for database incidents.
• Work across different time zones when required to support global teams

What You Will Bring to Coupa:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Science, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in MySQL administration, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of MySQL internals, including replication, performance tuning, and query optimization.
• Experience in cloud deployments, particularly AWS (RDS, Aurora); Azure or GCP experience is a plus.
• Proficiency in database security, backup strategies, recovery, and high availability solutions (e.g., Orchestrator, Failover Clusters).
• Hands-on experience in setting up monitoring dashboards and alerts using tools like PMM, New Relic, or Vivid Cortex.
• Basic scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Ruby to automate database tasks and operations.
• Experience in troubleshooting query performance issues using EXPLAIN plans and indexing strategies.
• Strong understanding of database schema design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Basic exposure to PostgreSQL or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code database provisioning.
• Experience using GitHub for version control and collaboration.
• Exposure to configuration management tools like Chef/Puppet.
• Relevant database certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Database – Specialty, MySQL DBA) would be an advantage.

Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees. 

Please be advised that inquiries or resumes from recruiters will not be accepted.