Senior Database Reliability Engineer

The role

You will own the reliability, performance, and scalability of the data tier. You will design schemas, tune Aurora, manage the CDC pipeline, and build automation and guardrails for database interactions.

What you will do

• Design schemas and access patterns that scale
• Tune Aurora for latency and throughput
• Review migrations for safety at scale
• Catch N+1 patterns and missing select_related/prefetch_related in review
• Apply and extend conventions for QuerySet usage and physical schema design
• Scale review through automation and AI review bots
• Perform capacity planning workstreams
• Manage zero-downtime schema migrations and cutovers
• Operate and extend the CDC pipeline
• Build tooling and guardrails like migration review automation and slow query pipelines

Required qualifications

• Strong PostgreSQL (EXPLAIN, MVCC, bloat, lock contention, vacuum/autovacuum)
• ORM fluency (Django, SQLAlchemy, ActiveRecord, or similar)
• Single-region multi-AZ design understanding
• Production CDC experience, ideally AWS DMS
• Hands-on with pganalyze (or Datadog DBM / Performance Insights / pg_stat_statements pipelines) and CloudWatch
• Experience using AI coding and review tools in a team setting
• At least one production message broker (SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Solid automation and IaC background (Python, Go, or similar) and Terraform
• Track record contributing to cross-team initiatives and writing design docs

Nice to have

• Aurora Serverless V2 experience
• Event sourcing on Postgres, or experience with alternate CDC tooling (Debezium, Fivetran, Airbyte)
• pgbouncer or RDS Proxy at scale with Django connection handling
• Deep Honeycomb usage: SLOs, BubbleUp, Triggers, derived columns
• Snowflake from the producer side: staging, Snowpipe, external tables on Parquet
• Experience scaling data infrastructure through rapid engineering headcount growth
• SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, or similar compliance work

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including two $0/month medical plan options
• Equity
• 401(k) Plan through Vestwell
• $500/year Flex Benefit for home office equipment, productivity tools, learning & development or fitness/wellness
• $100/month Commuter Benefits for SF based employees
• Flexible paid time off and company holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Free Talkspace membership
• One Medical access (location-dependent)
• Kindbody discounts for family planning

About the company

Scribe is a Specialized Intelligence platform that automatically captures how work happens and turns it into a living asset for people and AI agents. Based in San Francisco, it is a LinkedIn Top Startup valued at over $1B.