Staff Database Reliability Engineer

Checkr·Denver, Colorado, United States; San Francisco, California, United States·Posted 26 October 2026

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About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, and Anthropic. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company . About the team/role Reporting to the Manager, DevOps Engineering, you will lead the architecture, reliability, and operational excellence of Checkr’s core data stores. Checkr offers fantastic AI enablement, and you'll use AI tooling throughout your day-to-day. In this role, you will own database capacity planning, financial forecasting, high availability, disaster recovery, and infrastructure-as-code automation across high-scale distributed data stores. Partnering closely with Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, Core Services, and Product Engineering teams, you will establish fleet-wide data governance and performance standards that…

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