Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

What you'll do

• Design and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters using physical/logical replication and sharding.
• Optimize query performance, indexing strategies, schema designs, and storage engines.
• Perform capacity planning, growth forecasting, and workload modeling for data systems.
• Develop automation for provisioning, backups, failovers, and schema management using Terraform or Ansible.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems for PostgreSQL and MySQL environments.
• Lead incident response for performance regressions, replication lag, deadlocks, and storage failures.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes for database issues.
• Review SQL and schemas with software engineers to ensure efficient use of database features.

What we're looking for

• Must have 4+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in high-volume, distributed, or large-scale production environments.
• Must have strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals including WAL, MVCC, vacuum tuning, query planner, and logical replication.
• Must have production experience with MySQL, including InnoDB internals, replication, and performance tuning.
• Must have advanced SQL skills and a strong understanding of schema design and query optimization.
• Must have experience with Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and systems troubleshooting.
• Must have experience building automation with Go or Python.
• Must have production experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or PMM.
• Must have hands-on experience with cloud environments such as AWS or GCP.
• Must be able to establish U.S. Person status (e.g., U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee).
• Experience with PgBouncer, HAProxy, or other connection-pooling/load-balancing layers (preferred).
• Exposure to event streaming (Kafka, Debezium) and change data capture (preferred).
• Experience supporting 24/7 production environments with on-call rotation (preferred).
• Contributions to the open-source PostgreSQL ecosystem (preferred).