Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Innovate with purpose

At BILL, we believe in empowering the businesses that drive our economy. By replacing outdated financial processes with innovative tools, we help businesses-from startups to established brands-make smarter decisions and gain control of their operations. And we don't stop there: we're creating the future of financial automation so businesses can spend more time on what matters.

Working here means you become part of a vision-driven team that's ready to tackle challenges and build cutting-edge solutions. We value purpose, drive, and curiosity-and we thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. Whether in one of our offices in San Jose, CA, Draper, UT, or in a remote-eligible role, BILLders collaborate to deliver real impact for businesses that need more time in their busy weeks.

BILL builds high performing teams and we seek to hire the best talent for every role. We're committed to building a workplace that fosters inclusion and diverse perspectives, valuing each person's unique skills and experiences. We'd love to hear from you-you might be just what we're looking for, whether in this role or another.
Let's give businesses more time for what matters.

Make Your Impact on the Core Infrastructure Team

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Core Infrastructure Team. This team is central to managing all of BILL's infrastructure and databases. We champion Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS ECS and ensure robust, real-time alerting via Slack and PagerDuty, leveraging a suite of monitoring tools including Foglight, DataDog (for Logging, Metrics, and APM), Splunk, and CloudWatch (integrated via Datadog).

In this crucial role, you will be responsible for architecting, building, scaling, and supporting high-throughput data platforms that underpin mission-critical business applications. Success requires deep expertise across enterprise databases, real-time streaming, and distributed systems.

As a key contributor, you will collaborate with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to design and build resilient, fault-tolerant, real-time data pipelines. A critical focus of this role is ensuring exceptional data consistency and high performance at the database level, primarily by utilizing technologies like Kafka and Flink.

We'd love to chat if you have:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise RDBMS (PostgreSQL/Aurora/MySQL/Oracle), focusing on optimization, security, and access control.
• 3+ years managing databases & CDC Streaming services on AWS.
• Experience with Apache/Confluent Kafka (brokers, partitions, offsets, Schema Registry, Connect), including running clusters at scale with exactly-once or at-least-once delivery.
• Familiarity with Flink pipelines (stateful streaming, checkpointing, windows, savepoints).
• Strong experience designing fault-tolerant data ingestion and streaming architectures.
• Strong experience with replication tools like GoldenGate / Debezium.
• Expertise in IaC with Terraform and GitLab, applying an SDLC approach to infrastructure.
• Strong SQL skills and experience in query optimization.
• Strong knowledge of performance tuning, execution plans, indexing, partitioning, and concurrency.
• Experience implementing High Availability (HA), replication, Change Data Capture (CDC), disaster recovery, and multi-region database deployments.
• Proficiency in Python and other programming languages.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex platform issues across the database, streaming, and infrastructure layers.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools like DataDog, Splunk, and CloudWatch for real-time performance monitoring and issue resolution.
• Familiarity with containers and cloud platforms (Kubernetes/ECS/AWS).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Key Competencies

• Strong communication skills.
• Automation mindset.
• Ownership of end-to-end systems.

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The estimated salary range for this role is noted below for our San Jose based role. Our ranges for each role and job level are based on a variety of factors including candidate experience, expertise, and geographic location and may vary from the amounts listed above. The role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, flexible spending & health savings account, paid holidays, paid time off, and other company benefits.

San Jose pay range

$148,800-$178,500 USD

The estimated base salary range for this role is noted below for our office location in Draper, UT. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in BILL's bonus and equity plan. Our ranges for each role and job level are based on a variety of factors including candidate experience, expertise, and geographic location and may vary from the amounts listed above. The role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, flexible spending & health savings account, paid holidays, paid time off, and other company benefits.

Draper UT pay range

$126,500-$151,700 USD

What's in it for you?

Redefining how businesses automate their work is a fast-paced, exciting, and fun environment. But we also have benefits and perks to ensure the magic isn't only experienced by our customers, but by our employees as well.

Here is a preview of some of the amazing benefits here at BILL:

• 100% paid employee health, dental, and vision plans (choose HMO, PPO, or HDHP)
• HSA & FSA accounts
• Life Insurance, Long & Short-term disability coverage
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 11+ Observed holidays and wellness days and flexible time off
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with employee discounts
• Wellness & Fitness initiatives
• Employee recognition and referral programs
• And much more

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BILL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe our best ideas come from the unique stories, perspectives, and experiences of our team members. We welcome people of all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to bring their authentic selves and contribute to our culture.

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