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🇺🇸 Senior Database Reliability Engineer

United States🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architecting, optimizing, and ensuring the stability of mission-critical PostgreSQL environments within a cloud-native infrastructure.

Role type

Senior Database Reliability Engineer (PostgreSQL)

Builds

Highly available, resilient PostgreSQL database architectures on AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL

Domain

Cloud-native data infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

PostgreSQL internals, query tuning, indexing, partitioning, replication, AWS RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, disaster recovery, backup, failover, bottleneck diagnosis, automation

Preferred skills

Data platforms, analytics workloads, ETL processes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, advanced monitoring tools

Responsibilities

Design and manage highly available PostgreSQL architectures; Optimize performance via query plan analysis and index tuning; Ensure disaster readiness through backup and replication; Diagnose and resolve slow queries, locks, and deadlocks; Automate routine maintenance tasks; Collaborate on data migrations and application scaling

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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