Senior Database Reliability Engineer (PostgreSQL, IaC)
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capital.comFinancial services
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: Cyprus, PolandFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years running production databases as a DBRE, SRE, platform or database engineer
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLPythonGrafanaPrometheusCI/CDTerraformAnsible
Requirements
- Deep production PostgreSQL experience, including MVCC, vacuum and bloat, locking, physical and logical replication, and query planning.
- Use infrastructure as code as the normal way of working, with version-controlled, reviewed changes.
- Use CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, database, and schema changes.
- Have 5+ years running production databases as a DBRE, SRE, platform, or database engineer.
- Have experience designing high availability and disaster recovery, including replication, automated failover, redundancy, and RTO/RPO/cost trade-offs.
- Have a track record of zero-downtime changes, including online migrations, major-version upgrades, or moving data between clusters.
- Understand application database use, including connection pools, ORMs, transaction scope, retries, idempotency, and safe deployment order.
- Define observability measures, alert on SLOs, and verify changes with data.
- Script in Python, Bash, or Go to automate operational work.
- Be comfortable working in a regulated financial services environment with strict access control, encryption, and audit trails.
- Partner with developers and communicate clearly while owning outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Design and run highly available PostgreSQL across zones and regions, with automated, tested failover and fencing against split-brain.
- Define database infrastructure as code and apply it through peer-reviewed CI/CD pipelines with 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 alerts and dashboards to detect latency and capacity problems.
- Design backup and recovery, and conduct scheduled restore and failover tests measuring RTO and RPO.
- Right-size database instances and storage while meeting requirements.
- 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 automate operational runbooks.
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