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We are looking for a highly skilled Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) with deep expertise in PostgreSQL at scale. In this role, you will design, operationalize, and optimize the data persistence layer that powers large-scale, mission-critical systems. You’ll work closely with SRE, Platform, and Engineering teams to ensure performance, reliability, automation, and operational excellence across the database environment. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building resilient data infrastructure—well beyond traditional database administration.
Job Responsibility:
Design, implement, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters (physical/logical replication, sharding, partitioning, failover automation)
Optimize query performance and indexing strategies
Perform capacity planning, growth forecasting, and workload modeling
Own high-availability strategies, including: Automatic failover
Multi-region deployments
Disaster recovery
Build and maintain automation for: Provisioning and configuration
Backups and recovery
Failovers
Vacuum tuning
Schema management
Use tools such as Terraform, Ansible/SaltStack, Bash, Python, etc.
Develop monitoring and alerting systems for PostgreSQL clusters
Lead response during database incidents (e.g., performance regressions, replication lag, deadlocks, bloat, storage failures)
Conduct root-cause analysis and implement long-term fixes
Partner with software engineers to: Review SQL queries
Optimize schemas
Ensure effective use of PostgreSQL features
Provide guidance on: Database design patterns
Migrations and version upgrades
Best practices
Requirements:
7+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in large-scale, high-volume production environments