Senior Database Reliability Engineer

The role

You will be responsible for the performance, integrity, security, and availability of PostgreSQL databases running on Linux in AWS. This role focuses on day-to-day database administration and operational excellence.

What you will do

• Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL databases in production environments
• Ensure database availability, performance, and data integrity
• Perform routine database administration tasks including patching, upgrades, vacuuming, reindexing, and statistics management
• Execute and manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures
• Handle user access management, roles, and database security
• Perform capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting
• Troubleshoot database issues including performance bottlenecks, locking/contention, and failed jobs
• Support application teams with query tuning, schema changes, and release deployments
• Manage database migrations, upgrades, and change requests
• Maintain documentation and participate in on-call rotations

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a senior database administrator or Database Engineering role
• Strong hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience, including backups, recovery, and performance tuning
• Solid understanding of database security, access control, and compliance practices
• Experience managing large-scale production databases (250GB+)
• Strong Linux administration skills
• Experience with monitoring tools and performance diagnostics
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, or similar)
• Familiarity with cloud-based database deployments, preferably AWS (RDS, Aurora, EC2, S3)
• Strong organizational and documentation skills

Nice to have

• Experience with database auditing, compliance, or governance frameworks
• Familiarity with ETL processes, data pipelines, or reporting systems
• Experience with high availability setups, replication, and failover management
• Exposure to other database systems (MySQL, SQL Server, or NoSQL platforms)
• Experience supporting enterprise or highly regulated environments

Before you apply

• AI fluency is evaluated as part of the hiring process
• Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed and is based on business needs

About the company

ClickUp is an AI-native company building a converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search.