Senior Database Reliability Engineer I

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Experience: 7+ years in database engineering, database reliability, infrastructure, or SRE roles
Required Skills: AWSPostgreSQLPythonBashRubyGoCI/CDLinuxTerraform

Have 7+ years in database engineering, database reliability, infrastructure, or SRE roles, including hands-on ownership of production PostgreSQL.
Bring deep PostgreSQL expertise, including internals and MVCC, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS), indexing, vacuum behavior, locking, connection pooling, and configuration tuning.
Have strong experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services.
Have a proven track record of zero-downtime upgrades and complex schema migrations on large, busy tables.
Have hands-on experience with physical and logical replication, partitioning, read scaling, and backup and disaster-recovery strategy.
Have solid Infrastructure-as-Code experience, primarily Terraform, on AWS.
Have strong Linux fundamentals and fluency in at least one scripting language: Bash, Python, Ruby, or Go.
Have experience with monitoring and observability tooling and a solid grasp of IAM, secrets management, and network segmentation.
Have experience with production change, incident, and problem management, plus Git and modern CI/CD workflows applied to database changes.
Communicate database trade-offs to backend engineers and non-specialists in a remote-first organization.
Be willing and able to participate in an on-call rotation.
Have a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Own reliability, performance, and scalability of the PostgreSQL platform, primarily Amazon Aurora, including query and index strategy, execution plans, configuration tuning, and capacity planning.
Lead zero-downtime version upgrades and schema migrations, and diagnose and prevent plan regressions across Aurora major versions.
Manage vacuum strategy, bloat, long-running transactions, connection pooling, lock contention, and logical replication health.
Review backend-team schema changes and DDL for lock behavior, migration safety, and performance impact; build guardrails and tooling for safe changes.
Own backup, restore, and disaster recovery, including rehearsed restore drills and required access, encryption, and auditing controls.
Model database capacity and cost and improve cost efficiency without compromising reliability.
Deliver infrastructure and automation using Terraform and AWS, and contribute to CI/CD workflows for database changes.
Build and maintain database and platform monitoring, alerting, and observability.
Use cloud security and vulnerability-management tooling to triage findings and maintain compliance.
Participate in on-call, incident response, and postmortems; drive root-cause analysis and remediation.

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