Engineering Manager-Database Reliability

At least five years of experience as a manager supporting database or storage teams. Demonstrable people management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, and career development. Relevant project management experience: prioritization, tracking schedules and deadlines, communicating across team/org boundaries. Experience managing process design: running a smooth on call rotation, incident response, postmortems, load testing, capacity planning. Hiring experience: predicting staffing needs, designing interview loops, evaluating candidates, assisting with closing candidates at offer stage. Proven track record of running mission-critical databases in production (replication, backups, migrations, HA/DR). Skilled with Kubernetes and container orchestration (experience running DB workloads in K8s is a bonus). Experience working in Cloud (preferably GCP) or Data Center infrastructure.

Support engineers in architecting, maintaining, and evolving reliable, high-performance database technologies. Mentor and coach a diverse, globally distributed team of DB engineers. Shape and refine processes like incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning. Collaborate with infrastructure, product, and security teams on platform database initiatives. Drive best practices for monitoring, cost optimisation, and performance tuning in Postgres, CockroachDB and any future database. Hire and grow the team, shaping Wave’s DB reliability culture and standards.