Software Principal Engineer - DBA

About Boomi and What Makes Us Special

Are you ready to work at a fast-growing company where you can make a difference? Boomi aims to make the world a better place by connecting everyone to everything, anywhere. Our award-winning, intelligent integration and automation platform helps organizations power the future of business. At Boomi, you’ll work with world-class people and industry-leading technology. We hire trailblazers with an entrepreneurial spirit who can solve challenging problems, make a real impact, and want to be part of building something big. If this sounds like a good fit for you, check out boomi.com  or visit our Boomi Careers page to learn more.

How You’ll Make An Impact

As a DBA, you will lead database administration for Boomi's multi-region, high-availability Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL infrastructure supporting millions of integration processes and billions of transactions monthly. You will work with product management, other engineering teams, customer success and support on developing cutting edge new product features and enhancements across various areas of Boomi offerings.

What You’ll Do

Lead database administration for Boomi's multi-region, high-availability Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL infrastructure supporting millions of integration processes and billions of transactions monthly. Lead design and architectural discussions to strategize, define, and implement highly scalable backend database systems that provide exceptional resilience and contribute to 99.999% (5-9s) uptime. Define database standards, patterns, and best practices across the organization

Database Operations & Performance:

• Manage extremely large and wide variety of databases in  production across multiple regions
• Optimize database performance for RedSky and Shard databases,perform index optimization, query tuning, and capacity planning to support growing workloads
• Monitor and resolve database performance issues during incidents

High-Availability & Disaster Recovery:

• Maintain Global Database clusters for cross-region replication and disaster recovery
• Execute database failovers and rollbacks with zero data loss
• Implement and test backup/restore strategies for multi-TB databases

Database Upgrades & Migrations:

• Plan and execute major version upgrades 
• Design blue-green deployment strategies for zero-downtime migrations
• Validate upgrade paths across QA, ProdClone, and Production environments
• Develop rollback procedures for critical database changes

Incident Response:

• Lead database recovery efforts during production outages
• Work with Cloud vendors, third party DB experts, and internal teams to resolve complex database issues
• Provide expert guidance on database-related incidents

Security & Compliance:

• Manage database access controls and privilege management
• Implement security best practices for multi-tenant database environments
• Conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments
• Ensure compliance with data protection regulations

The Experience You Bring

Technical Expertise:

• 7+ years production DBA experience with wide variety of databases and technologies
• Deep knowledge of AWS Aurora RDS, replication, and failover mechanisms
• Strong SQL optimization and performance tuning skills
• Experience with 40+ TB databases and high-transaction environments
• Proficiency with database monitoring tools (New Relic, CloudWatch, PMM)

Problem-Solving:

• Proven track record handling large-scale database incidents
• Ability to make critical decisions under pressure during outages
• Strong analytical skills for root cause analysis
• Solve complex problems at a massive scale.

Collaboration:

• Partner with architects, Platform, SRE, and Engineering teams