Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)
Branch
| Company | Branch |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Remote |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 31 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 2 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
About us:
Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products.
Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture.
We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together.
Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.
About the role:
This Senior Database Reliability Engineer is responsible for supporting all production database systems so that they run smoothly. We run MySQL 8.4 on Google Cloud Platform’s CloudSQL, alongside Google Cloud Spanner for globally distributed workloads.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to
Lead, and take ownership of our core database systems to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security
Communicate critical data changes to the data warehousing team
Work alongside both engineering teams and data teams to shepherd schema changes from design to deployment to ensure architectural and downstream compatibility
Build and maintain automated test and deployment data pipelines, including production level data testing at scale, with SRE and DevOps teams
Proactively work on detecting weak areas and incorporate into automated monitoring and production alerting with our Cloud Ops teams
Document and automate processes to eliminate time spent on recurring tasks
Evaluate new database features (and products if needed) to meet scalability and global uptime requirements
Own database backup and recovery, and help establish disaster recovery targets and practices as the systems scale
Support, debug, and perform RCA on production database issues, and participate in incident response as needed
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience managing MySQL/CloudSQL at scale
Expert at SQL and MySQL specifics including schema design
Deep knowledge of MySQL internals
Solid understanding of MySQL replication, SQL tuning, and database optimization while minimizing downtime
Experience operating Google Cloud Spanner at scale, including schema design and query optimization
BS in Computer Science or equivalent program
Bonus points for:
Payments experience (or related industry)
Experience with the GCP toolset
Experience with infrastructure as code
Experience with Redis
Experience with global, multi-region deployments including sharding
Compensation:
The base salary range for this role is $175-185k. The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the U.S. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicant's specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc.
Location:
This position is classified as REMOTE within the United States of America.
We are unable to hire candidates located outside of the domestic U.S.
Benefits:
Market-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance
Stock options
Free Premium-Tier Origin Financial Wellness subscription
Monthly home-office stipend
401k (TransAmerica)
12-weeks paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
Flexible time off + sick and safe time
11 paid company holidays
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