Senior Database Reliability Engineer I - Germany/Austria/UK

The role

You will own the reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of the PostgreSQL data platform, primarily Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. You will also work as a member of the Infrastructure team on Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and security tooling.

What you will do

• Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of the PostgreSQL platform
• Lead zero-downtime version upgrades and schema migrations at scale
• Own operational health including vacuum strategy, connection management, and logical replication
• Review schema changes and DDL from backend teams
• Own backup, restore, and disaster recovery end-to-end
• Model database capacity and cost
• Deliver infrastructure and automation using Terraform and cloud-native tooling on AWS
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Use cloud security and vulnerability management tooling
• Take part in the on-call rotation, incident response, and postmortems

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in database engineering, database reliability, infrastructure, or SRE roles
• Significant hands-on ownership of production PostgreSQL
• Deep PostgreSQL expertise: internals and MVCC, reading and acting on EXPLAIN, indexing strategy, vacuum behavior, locking, connection pooling, and configuration tuning
• Strong experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services
• Proven track record of zero-downtime upgrades and complex schema migrations on large, busy tables
• Hands-on experience with physical and logical replication, partitioning, read scaling, and designing and validating backup and disaster-recovery strategies
• Solid experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, primarily Terraform, on AWS
• Strong Linux fundamentals
• Fluency in at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, Ruby, or Go)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling
• Solid grasp of security practices (IAM, secrets management, network segmentation)
• Experience with change, incident, and problem management in production, and with Git and modern CI/CD workflows

Nice to have

• Familiarity with backend frameworks that interact with PostgreSQL (Ruby on Rails preferred; Python, Rust, or Elixir valued)
• Experience with caching layers (Redis, Memcached)
• Exposure to analytics pipelines and warehousing (Redshift, Snowflake, ClickHouse) or CDC-based data flows
• Experience with container platforms (ECS, EKS, Fargate), NoSQL or vector databases, or AWS certification (Database – Specialty, DevOps Engineer – Professional)

Benefits

• Monthly remote work stipend (home internet costs, electricity)
• Home office equipment package (laptop, keyboard, monitor)
• Home office equipment upgrade (furniture, ear plugs) or membership to a local co-working space
• Sick leave benefit
• Parental leave
• 25 days of annual leave plus local national holidays
• Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and material
• Annual international team-building trip
• Quarterly and monthly online get-togethers
• Flexible schedules

About the company

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