Database Reliability Engineer

🕒 April 8

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Starling Bank

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🏦 Banking

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

Banking • Fintech • Finance

Starling Bank is a UK-based digital bank providing a range of personal and business banking services. It offers current accounts, savings accounts, euro accounts, and teen-oriented banking. Starling Bank is known for its emphasis on mobile banking, featuring tools for budgeting, bill management, international money transfers, and overdraft facilities. The bank also provides business accounts tailored for sole traders and larger enterprises with multi-currency options. Award-winning security features and 24/7 customer service further define its banking services. As a fully regulated bank, Starling prioritizes sustainable banking and innovation in financial services.

📋 Description

• Modernize and Scale the RDS Fleet: Ensure the rock-solid reliability of our existing RDS footprint. You will architect automated strategies for seamless, multi-version upgrades and proactive performance tuning to minimize downtime across hundreds of instances • Architect Cross-Cloud Portability: Use CNPG and cloud-native patterns to ensure our database layer remains provider-agnostic, allowing seamless deployment across AWS and GCP • Evolve Observability & Monitoring: Build deep, proactive monitoring and alerting for our global database fleet. You will ensure we have the visibility to detect performance regressions and health issues before they impact our customers • Support Replication & Mobility: Support data streaming and "Zero-Downtime" migration strategies, ensuring data consistency and availability • Fortify Business Continuity (BCP): Design and implement rigorous Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery strategies. You will build the automation that ensures data durability and rapid recovery across regions, guaranteeing that database remains resilient in the face of any failures

🎯 Requirements

• PostgreSQL & Kubernetes Expert: You have an extensive experience working with Postgres and a passion for running stateful workloads natively on Kubernetes. You are excited to leverage CNPG to manage persistence, high availability, and automated failover • Systems Thinker: You have a natural "reluctance for manual implementation." You believe infrastructure should be managed entirely via code, using Terraform to provision the foundation and custom APIs to handle the orchestration • Distributed Systems Enthusiast: You are excited by the challenge of "multi-everything"—multi-tenant, multi-region, and multi-cloud—while ensuring rigorous data integrity and mobility • A Security & Observability Mindset: You believe security is paramount. You focus on building deep observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry/Humio) and automated guardrails so the fleet is secure by design without requiring manual intervention • Engineering via Code: While you are a systems expert, your primary delivery mechanism is code. You leverage Java to build the robust, testable backend services that orchestrate our data layer, taking pride in clean relational modeling and performant DDL

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you) • An extra day’s holiday for your birthday • Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off • 16 hours paid volunteering time a year • Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme • Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection • Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton • Generous family-friendly policies • Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks • Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing