Senior Database Reliability Engineer (PostgreSQL, IaC)
Core
Design and run highly available PostgreSQL platforms, automate infrastructure, and ensure resilience and high availability for a global trading platform.
Role type
Senior Database Reliability Engineer (PostgreSQL, IaC)
Builds
Production-ready database clusters, automated provisioning, and zero-downtime migration pipelines for a trading platform.
Domain
Financial services / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
PostgreSQL at scale, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, High Availability design, Disaster Recovery, Zero-downtime migrations, Observability, Python/Bash/Go scripting, Financial services compliance
Preferred skills
Terraform, Ansible, MySQL, Redshift, ClickHouse, Logical replication, Kubernetes, Linux performance tuning, Secrets management
Technologies
AWS RDS, Aurora, Redshift, ClickHouse, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Kubernetes, Java, Hibernate
Responsibilities
Design and run highly available PostgreSQL across zones and regions with automated failover; Define database infrastructure as code with CI/CD integration; Build self-service database provisioning; Plan and execute zero-downtime migrations; Partner with developers on schema changes and query optimization; Define SLOs and build monitoring dashboards; Design backup and recovery strategies; Secure data with encryption and access controls; Lead incident response and on-call rotations; Replace manual runbooks with automation.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC