Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) (remote work)
CloudLinux3 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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About CloudLinux
CloudLinux builds a commercially supported Linux operating system and server-hardening tools for hosting providers and data centers running multi-tenant environments. It sells subscriptions and support that improve server stability, resource isolation, and security for shared hosting workloads, along with related maintenance and patching services. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Estero, Florida, the company is privately held.