Senior Database Engineer

About the Opportunity

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior 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.

What You’ll Do

Architecture, Reliability & Performance

• 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

Automation & Tooling

• 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.