Senior Database Engineer

BetterHelp is on a mission to remove the traditional barriers to therapy and make mental health care more accessible to everyone. As a Senior Database Engineer, you will own the architecture, availability, and performance of Aurora MySQL clusters, ensuring scalability and efficiency while collaborating with various teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own the architecture, availability, and performance of our Aurora MySQL clusters
• Design and maintain strategies for obfuscating and replicating production databases to pre-production environments at scale
• Troubleshoot slow queries, hot tables, lock contention, and other complex performance issues
• Work with engineers to review, improve, or rewrite inefficient queries generated by Eloquent/Laravel
• Design schema and data modeling strategies that can evolve without risking downtime
• Weigh in on foreign key usage and implement sane policies that balance safety with maintainability
• Monitor and tune backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes
• Provide guidance on Redis usage and data patterns where applicable
• Help influence the engineering roadmap, even when it means others need to adapt workflows
• Participate in on-call rotation for major database incidents

Requirements:

• 5+ years of DBA/DBE experience managing production-grade relational databases at large scale
• Deep MySQL/Aurora internals knowledge, from slow queries to replication lag and everything in between
• Strong experience with AWS-native database solutions and data tooling
• Familiarity with Laravel or PHP-based ORM query behavior
• Experience managing and monitoring databases with tens or hundreds of billions of rows
• Pragmatic and persuasive communicator who can align teams on technical decisions
• Strong Bash scripting and automation mindset
• Experience with Redis at scale