Your opportunity

Do you enjoy creating and driving a vision across multiple teams? Do you cherish discussions about complex distributed systems? Do you love data? We are looking for a Principal Database Architect and technical leader with deep domain expertise in databases and running multi-cloud ecosystems at scale! This person will help set the technical direction for New Relic by leading New Relic’s database platform vision, implementation of a multi-cloud DBaaS, global expansion, developer tooling strategy, and edge computing services around the world. 


What you'll do
  • Architect, design, and implement a scalable and highly available DBaaS platform based on Kubernetes, Go, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
  • Provide architectural guidance and best practices for database deployments, performance optimization, and security.
  • Collaborate with executives and engineers to build and drive a technical vision for our database platform.
  • Establish and promote clear architectural standards for databases and data stores
  • Help teams choose the right tools for the job at hand and utilize the selected technologies efficiently.
  • Make decisions by balancing competing priorities across the business and platform groups.
  • Communicate, communicate, communicate: Architects serve as the connective tissue between teams and organizations for all technical matters.
  • Providing architectural guidance and mentoring to multiple development teams
  • Drive innovation by constantly looking at new technologies and frameworks that align with our future state vision and build reference architectures around them to evangelize across engineering teams



What your playground will look like:
  • A constantly evolving architecture, with hundreds of containerized databases across multiple agile teams.
  • A multi-cloud environment ingesting over 3 billion data points per minute, 150 petabytes of data per month, and accepting over 70 billion HTTP requests a day from our customers.
  • Kubernetes, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Go, and that’s just the beginning of the technologies in our stack!

This role requires

If you are ready for this job, you have spent years building and supporting large distributed systems in the cloud. You know how to design and ship software while documenting it for others to understand. You keep up with technology trends and learn quickly. You enjoy technical debates while also promoting psychological safety and inclusivity.



  • 8+ years experience in building and managing a distributed DbaaS (database as a service) platform and a passion for tackling complex distributed system challenges.

  • Proven expertise in building and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-agnostic DBaaS platforms.

  • Strong experience in developing and maintaining database infrastructure on major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

  • Strong experience in architectural patterns and anti-patterns for resiliency, geo-availability, and disaster recovery.

  • Experience with large, complex, geographically distributed enterprise environments.

  • Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Helm) for multi-cloud and multi-region deployment.

  • Skilled in optimizing cloud database infrastructure for reliability, availability, scale, performance, and cost.

  • Familiarity with modern cloud deployments, compute, storage, networking, containers, databases, and security.

  • Effective at driving transformational projects, and unifying technical teams around a common architecture.

  • Proven track record of setting and achieving ambitious goals, guided by metrics.

  • Excellent communication skills, capable of engaging both technical and executive audiences.

  • Comfortable working across time zones(IN\US\EU time zones) in a fast-paced setting.

  • Knowledgeable in Agile and other software development methodologies.

Bonus points if you have

    • Experience in cloud DBaaS production environments
    • Experience with Crossplane or similar tools for controlling cloud-managed services
    • Valid Cloud Database Certifications
    • RDBMS skills in SQL or NoSQL including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
    • Experience with Vector Database 
    • Experience working in large SaaS environments
    Is a Remote Job?
    Hybrid (Remote with required office time)

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