Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) & Architect (remote work)
CloudLinux6 months ago
Remote, EMEA +6 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement a self-service internal DBaaS platform using Terraform and Ansible.
- Deploy and operate highly available PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis clusters across bare metal, OpenNebula, Kubernetes, and public clouds.
- Scale ClickHouse clusters, including sharding, table-engine optimization, replication, and S3 backup pipelines.
- Maintain infrastructure supporting Apache Airflow, Redash, ETL pipelines, and analytics workflows.
- Implement SRE practices, automated self-healing, database SLOs, and SLIs.
- Lead migrations from legacy database solutions to modern cloud and Kubernetes-based patterns.
- Provide technical guidance on data schemas and SQL query optimization for high-load systems.
- Serve as a technical authority and mentor for product teams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of PostgreSQL experience, including MVCC internals, locking, Patroni, PgBouncer, and major-version upgrades under load.
- Strong experience operating large ClickHouse clusters, including ZooKeeper or ClickHouse Keeper, sharding, replication internals, and data-part performance diagnostics.
- Mandatory experience writing complex Terraform modules and Ansible roles.
- Programming experience in Python or Go for infrastructure automation is strongly preferred.
- Experience operating databases across bare metal, Kubernetes, and cloud environments, including NVMe and network storage optimization.
- Understanding of security, FIPS, audit logs, disaster recovery, and end-to-end systems architecture.
- Upper-intermediate or higher English proficiency.
- Experience building an Internal Developer Platform is desirable.
- Experience operating databases in Kubernetes with CloudNativePG or Altinity Operator is desirable.
- Experience working for cloud or hosting providers on similar services is desirable.
- Openness to using AI agents such as Claude, Codex, and Gemini in engineering workflows.
Benefits
- Fully remote work with flexible hours from any location worldwide.
- Professional development support, paid training and conferences, and an education budget.
- Twenty-four paid vacation days per year, ten national holidays, and unlimited sick leave.
- Private medical insurance compensation.
- Co-working and gym or sports reimbursement.
- Opportunity to receive a reward for an innovative idea that the company can patent.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache AirflowApache KafkaAWSAzureClickHouseDigitalOceanGoGoogle CloudGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMongoDBOpenNebulaPostgreSQLPythonRedisTerraform
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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.