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Senior Database Reliability Engineer

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5 days ago
Remote, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, upgrade, and build scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS, RDS, and distributed systems patterns.
  • Drive infrastructure roadmap initiatives focused on reliability, recoverability, scalability, capacity planning, benchmarking, and performance bottlenecks.
  • Define and maintain SLAs, alerts, anomaly detection, observability, and operational standards across infrastructure.
  • Improve distributed microservices architecture, security, CI/CD practices, and system performance.
  • Lead AI enablement efforts that apply AI and automation to infrastructure reliability, developer productivity, and internal tooling.
  • Build and maintain Golang services and RESTful APIs, including database and backend systems.
  • Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and translate business goals into technical roadmaps.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering or infrastructure engineering experience, including significant SRE and backend experience.
  • Recent experience deploying significant changes to a production application or infrastructure configuration within the past 30 days.
  • Strong proficiency in Golang and experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
  • Expertise with SQL-based relational databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, with experience optimizing schemas and queries at scale.
  • Proficiency with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and New Relic.
  • Understanding of distributed systems patterns, including transactional outbox, event-driven architecture, stream processing, and queues.
  • Experience working with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
  • Preferred experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, AWS Aurora RDS, data engineering, data pipelines, data warehousing, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerized microservices, and AI developer tooling such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Cursor.
  • Preferred track record of shipping commercial APIs and data-driven applications and leading technical direction for reliable, high-traffic services.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote role based in India, with required working hours of 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST to support teams in the United States and Canada.
  • Competitive compensation of $5,000–$9,500 USD per month.
  • Career advancement opportunities, high autonomy, and the opportunity to work on AI enablement and infrastructure reliability.
  • Collaborative culture emphasizing learning, innovation, operational excellence, and mentorship.

Tech Stack

AWSDatadogElasticsearchGitGoGrafanaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactReact NativeTypeScript

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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