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Senior Database Reliability Engineer

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5 days ago
Remote, TurkeySenior

Responsibilities

  • Architect, upgrade, design, and build scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS, and RDS.
  • Drive infrastructure roadmap initiatives focused on reliability, recoverability, scalability, and capacity planning.
  • Benchmark and stress test systems to identify bottlenecks and prepare for business growth.
  • Define and maintain SLAs, alerts, anomaly detection, and observability practices.
  • Improve infrastructure reliability, developer productivity, and internal tooling through AI and automation.
  • Build consistency and scalability across distributed microservices while maintaining performance and reliability.
  • Establish engineering practices for observability, security, and CI/CD.
  • 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.
  • Strong proficiency in Golang and experience building and maintaining commercial APIs.
  • Expertise with SQL-based relational databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, with experience optimizing schemas and queries at scale.
  • Proficiency with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and New Relic.
  • Understanding of distributed systems patterns such as transactional outbox, event-driven architecture, stream processing, and queues.
  • Ability to introduce ideas, influence decisions, and lead complex technical initiatives.
  • Experience with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience includes AWS Aurora RDS, data engineering, data pipelines, data warehousing, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerized microservices, and AI developer tools such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Cursor.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote role based in Türkiye.
  • Fixed working hours of 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST to support U.S. and Canadian operations.
  • Opportunities for career advancement, technical leadership, mentorship, and work on AI-enabled infrastructure initiatives.

Tech Stack

AWSDatadogElasticsearchGitGoGrafanaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactReact NativeTypeScript

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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