🇺🇸 Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Xperteez Technology United States
Business Consulting and Services · 51-200 employees
About the role
You will design, implement, and manage highly available PostgreSQL database architectures within a cloud-native environment. Additionally, you will optimize database performance, automate maintenance tasks, and ensure disaster recovery readiness.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience managing and optimizing PostgreSQL databases in production settings. Expert-level knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, AWS RDS, and Aurora PostgreSQL is required.
Benefits
Full description
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Job Type: Full-time
Location: Remote
Job Summary:
Join our team as a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, where you’ll play a central role in architecting, optimizing, and ensuring the stability of mission-critical PostgreSQL environments. You will leverage your deep technical expertise to drive database reliability, high availability, and performance at scale within a cutting-edge, cloud-native infrastructure. This is an excellent opportunity for talented engineers who are passionate about building robust data systems and thrive in collaborative, fast-paced environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage highly available, resilient PostgreSQL database architectures using AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL.
- Optimize database performance by analyzing query execution plans, tuning indices, and implementing advanced partitioning strategies.
- Ensure disaster recovery readiness through robust backup, replication, and failover processes.
- Diagnose and resolve slow queries, locks, deadlocks, and complex bottlenecks impacting large-scale databases.
- Automate routine maintenance tasks and promote operational excellence across all database environments.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to support new features, data migrations, and ongoing application scaling.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation and demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience managing and optimizing PostgreSQL databases in production settings.
- Expert-level knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and replication.
- Proven hands-on experience with AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, including backup, recovery, and high-availability design.
- Strong analytical abilities in troubleshooting slow queries, execution plans, locks, and deadlocks.
- Demonstrated experience maintaining large-scale, high-traffic databases with millions of rows.
- Deep care for clear, proactive written and verbal communication.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a remote team.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting data platforms, analytics workloads, ETL processes, and operational databases.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native service environments.
- Exposure to supporting modern data architectures and advanced monitoring tools.
Compensation & Benefits Notice
Base salary, equity compensation, and employees may also receive performance-based bonuses, dependent on role and subject to company policies. Benefits package, including up to 100% reimbursement for health-insurance premiums, paid time off, a 401(K) plan with a company match, and additional benefits designed to support a high-performing, remote-first workforce.
