Senior Database Reliability Engineer

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🌐 Germany, Austria, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Storyblok

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

🔌 API

SaaS • B2B • API

Storyblok is a leading headless content management system (CMS) company, providing a powerful and flexible platform for developers and marketers to create, manage, and optimize digital content across multiple channels. Recognized as a top enterprise headless CMS, Storyblok enables seamless content delivery and management for various industries including retail, technology, finance, and education. The platform supports a range of technologies such as Vue, Nuxt, Next. js, and React, empowering users to achieve faster development times and enhanced digital experiences. Trusted by companies like Tesla, Nissan, and Oatly, Storyblok offers robust API integrations and developer tools to streamline content operations and drive significant ROI for businesses worldwide.

📋 Description

• Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of Storyblok's PostgreSQL data platform, primarily Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL • Develop query and index strategies, analyze execution plans, tune configuration, and plan capacity for hot multi-tenant read paths • Lead zero-downtime Aurora version upgrades and large-scale schema migrations • Manage vacuum strategy, bloat, long-running transactions, wraparound risk, connection pooling, lock contention, logical replication, and replication slot hygiene • Review backend schema changes and DDL for lock behavior, migration safety, and performance impact • Build guardrails and tooling for safe database changes • Own backup, restore, disaster recovery, restore drills, access, encryption, and auditing controls • Model database capacity and cost and drive cost efficiency • Deliver AWS infrastructure and automation using Terraform and cloud-native tooling • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, including automated handling of database changes • Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability using tools such as pg_stat_statements, Prometheus exporters, Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry • Use cloud security and vulnerability-management tooling such as Aikido • Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, postmortems, root-cause analysis, and remediation • Improve organization-wide database expertise through design reviews, documentation, runbooks, and mentoring • Leverage AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, and work quality

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in database engineering, database reliability, infrastructure, or SRE roles, including significant hands-on ownership of production PostgreSQL • Deep PostgreSQL expertise, including internals and MVCC, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS), indexing strategy, vacuum behavior, locking, connection pooling, and configuration tuning • Strong experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services • Proven experience with zero-downtime upgrades and complex schema migrations on large, busy tables • Hands-on experience with physical and logical replication, partitioning, read scaling, and backup and disaster-recovery strategies • Solid Infrastructure-as-Code experience, primarily Terraform, on AWS • Strong Linux fundamentals and fluency in at least one of Bash, Python, Ruby, or Go • Experience with monitoring and observability tooling • Solid understanding of IAM, secrets management, and network segmentation • Experience with change, incident, and problem management in production • Experience with Git and modern CI/CD workflows applied to database changes • Strong written and verbal communication in a remote-first organization • Willingness and ability to participate in an on-call rotation • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Familiarity with backend frameworks that interact with PostgreSQL is nice to have, with Ruby on Rails preferred and Python, Rust, or Elixir valued • Experience with Redis or Memcached is nice to have • Exposure to Redshift, Snowflake, ClickHouse, or CDC-based data flows is nice to have • Experience with ECS, EKS, Fargate, NoSQL or vector databases, or AWS certification is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Monthly remote work stipend for home internet costs and electricity • Home office equipment package at the start, including laptop, keyboard, and monitor • Home office equipment upgrade for furniture and ear plugs, or membership to a local co-working space after onboarding • Sick leave benefit • Parental leave • 25 days of annual leave plus local national holidays • Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and materials • Annual international team-building trip • Quarterly and monthly online get-togethers • Flexible schedules • Remote home-work opportunity or Storyblok-funded co-working space