Senior Database Reliability Engineer I - Germany/Austria/UK
Core
Own the reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of the PostgreSQL data platform (primarily Amazon Aurora) and the surrounding infrastructure/automation for a headless CMS.
Role type
Senior Database Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Builds
High-reliability PostgreSQL platform, zero-downtime schema migrations, observability tooling, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) + Database Engineering (PostgreSQL)
Required skills
PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, locking, vacuum), Amazon Aurora, Terraform, AWS, Linux, scripting (Python/Bash/Go/Ruby), observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog), incident management, capacity modeling
Preferred skills
Ruby on Rails, Redis, container platforms (ECS/EKS), data warehousing (Redshift/Snowflake)
Technologies
Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, Terraform, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, RDS Proxy
Responsibilities
Lead zero-downtime version upgrades and schema migrations; tune query plans and manage connection pooling; build guardrails for backend teams; manage backup/restore and disaster recovery drills; participate in on-call rotation and incident response; model database capacity and cost.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
