Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities: of the Database Reliability Engineer: • Design, deploy, and support production PostgreSQL environments across cloud-based infrastructure. • Manage PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, Amazon RDS, and related managed database services. • Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools. • Monitor and troubleshoot database performance across application, database, storage, operating system, and network layers. • Implement backup, recovery, replication, failover, and disaster recovery processes. • Collaborate with engineering teams to create self-service database platforms and operational workflows. • Support distributed data technologies including Kafka, Redis, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, or similar systems. • Lead performance tuning initiatives, capacity planning efforts, and reliability improvements for critical production systems. • Participate in operational reviews, incident response activities, and system architecture discussions. • Create technical documentation and mentor team members on database and infrastructure best practices. Requirements of the Database Reliability Engineer: • 5+ years of experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production environments. • Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, Amazon RDS, AWS services, Terraform, service discovery, and secrets management. • 5+ years of experience managing production database or distributed data systems. • 3+ years of Linux systems engineering experience, including performance tuning, memory management, networking, storage optimization, and security. • Experience automating infrastructure and database operations using Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar technologies. • 2+ years of scripting or programming experience with Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, or Perl. • Experience supporting distributed data platforms such as Kafka/MSK, ClickHouse, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch. • Strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals including replication, indexing, transaction consistency, concurrency, backup and recovery, and query optimization. Compensation: for the Database Reliability Engineer: • Salary range: $140,000 - $160,000 • Full Comprehensive Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, PTO, Paid Holiday and Sick Leave if Required by Law.