Senior Database Reliability Engineer, PostgreSQL, IaC

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🌐 Poland, Cyprus, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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📋 Description

• Design and run highly available PostgreSQL across zones and regions with automated, tested failover and split-brain fencing • Define database infrastructure as code, including clusters, parameters, networking, access, monitoring, and backups, with peer review, CI/CD application, and drift detection • Build self-service database provisioning for product teams • Plan and execute migrations, upgrades, and table moves with zero or near-zero downtime • Partner with developers on schema changes, queries, connection pooling, transaction scope, retries, and expand-and-contract migrations • Define SLOs and build SLO-based alerts and dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools • Design backup and recovery and conduct scheduled restore and failover tests measuring RTO and RPO • Right-size instances and storage to optimize costs • Secure data through least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, audited access, and PII masking • Lead and participate in incident response and on-call; write blameless post-mortems and follow through on actions • Replace manual runbooks with automation and document remaining procedures

🎯 Requirements

• Deep PostgreSQL production experience, including MVCC, vacuum and bloat, locking, physical and logical replication, and query planning • Infrastructure as code experience with version control and peer review • CI/CD experience for infrastructure and database changes, including schema migrations • 5+ years running production databases as a DBRE, SRE, platform or database engineer • Experience with AWS, ideally RDS or Aurora • Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery, including replication, automated failover, multi-region or multi-cloud redundancy, and RTO/RPO/cost trade-offs • Track record of zero-downtime changes, online migrations, major version upgrades, or moving data between clusters • Understanding of connection pools, ORMs such as Hibernate, transaction scope, retries, idempotency, and safe deployment order • Observability skills, including defining measurements, SLO alerting, and data-based verification • Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go • Comfort working in a regulated financial services environment • Knowledge of access control, encryption, and audit trails • Clear communication and ability to partner with developers • Terraform and Ansible, MySQL, Redshift, ClickHouse, DynamoDB, logical replication or CDC tooling, Kubernetes, Java services, Linux performance tuning, and Vault or another secrets manager are nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Work-life harmony • Annual performance bonus • Generous annual leave • Employee referral program • Medical insurance • Pension plans • Location-specific benefits and perks • 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply) • Two additional paid volunteer days each year

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