Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) (remote work)
CloudLinux2 months ago
Remote, EMEA +6 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Own production PostgreSQL reliability, including HA design, Patroni, PgBouncer, replication, failover, upgrades, vacuum and bloat control, query tuning, locks, indexes, capacity, backups, PITR, and restore validation.
- Improve disaster recovery through tested restores, documented recovery paths, measurable RTO/RPO targets, runbooks, and safe maintenance plans.
- Support ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis by troubleshooting incidents, reviewing access and data-safety changes, improving monitoring, and developing ClickHouse operational expertise.
- Automate provisioning, grants, backups, restores, health checks, and ownership metadata using Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD, scripts, and reproducible runbooks.
- Help build DBaaS-style self-service capabilities for database requests, access, credentials, and operational checks.
- Improve observability and incident response using Grafana, metrics, logs, SLOs, alert rules, Opsgenie routing, and clear production-incident communication.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on PostgreSQL experience in business-critical production environments, typically 5+ years or equivalent depth.
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and operations, including MVCC, WAL, transactions, locks, indexes, query planning, replication, autovacuum, bloat, major upgrades, backups, PITR, and restore testing.
- Experience with highly available databases and the ability to reason about quorum, split-brain risk, failover, rollback, and recovery.
- Strong Linux and infrastructure fundamentals covering systemd, networking, storage, filesystems, CPU, memory, disk bottlenecks, TLS, DNS, firewalls, and root-cause troubleshooting.
- Automation skills with Ansible and scripting; Terraform/OpenTofu and GitLab CI/CD experience are strong advantages.
- Ability and willingness to support multiple database engines and learn ClickHouse quickly.
- Practical use of AI engineering assistants such as Claude and Codex, with personal verification of generated SQL, commands, scripts, and operational conclusions.
- Upper-intermediate or higher English proficiency for clear team communication.
- Preferred experience with ClickHouse operations, Keeper/ZooKeeper, MergeTree engines, distributed DDL, grants, row policies, backups, query troubleshooting, and cluster recovery.
- Preferred experience with MongoDB replica sets, Percona Backup for MongoDB, Redis/Sentinel, database observability, SLOs, alert tuning, incident runbooks, internal platforms, self-service portals, or DBaaS workflows.
Benefits
- Fully remote work with flexible working hours from any location worldwide.
- 24 paid vacation days per year, 10 national holidays, and unlimited sick leave.
- Compensation for private medical insurance.
- Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
- Education budget.
- Opportunity to receive a reward for an innovative idea that the company can patent.
- Professional development and challenging production-infrastructure projects.
Tech Stack
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