Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) & Architect (remote work)
CloudLinux5 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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