Database Reliability Engineer
Starling Bank21 hours ago
Dublin, Ireland +3 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Maintain and scale the existing Amazon RDS database fleet using Terraform and automated performance-tuning strategies.
- Build proactive monitoring and alerting for the global database fleet using Java-based data collection pipelines and metrics platforms.
- Design and implement business continuity planning and disaster recovery automation to support data durability and rapid regional recovery.
- Use CloudNativePG and cloud-native patterns to enable cross-cloud database portability.
- Develop Java microservices for database monitoring, automated failover, and replication workflows.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, including query execution, indexing, locking, and performance tuning.
- Experience driving infrastructure and database orchestration programmatically with Terraform and custom Java automation.
- Interest or experience in multi-tenant and multi-region distributed data platforms, data integrity, relational modeling, and data mobility.
- A security and observability mindset, including experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Dash0, Sentry, or Humio and automated security guardrails in Java services.
Benefits
- 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, with an additional birthday day and the option to buy or sell up to five extra days.
- Annual leave increases with length of service.
- 16 hours of paid volunteering time annually.
- Salary sacrifice and an enhanced company pension scheme.
- Life insurance at four times salary and group income protection.
- Private medical insurance with VitalityHealth, including mental health support and cancer care.
- Family-friendly policies, Perkbox membership, retail and wellness discounts, Cycle to Work, gym partnerships, and electric vehicle leasing.
- Hybrid working in London, with Technology employees expected to attend the office at least one day per week.
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About Starling Bank
Starling Bank is a UK digital bank offering personal and business current accounts, savings, cards, and lending through a mobile-first platform. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, it holds a UK banking licence and is privately held. It also commercialises its core technology as Engine by Starling, a SaaS platform that provides banking infrastructure to banks and financial institutions internationally.