Database Reliability Engineer

Requirements

• Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
• Develop and optimize database schemas, queries, and procedures for performance and scalability.
• Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.
• Implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
• Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.

Nice to Haves

• Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.
• Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
• Experience with non-relational data stores such as Distributed & time-series databases (ex. Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (eg., Redis).
• Experience developing software in Go, Python, or C/C++.

What You'll Be Doing

• The ideal candidate will work alongside database engineers, software developers, and Infrastructure teams, contributing to the evolution of database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies.
• Play a critical role in enhancing PostgreSQL infrastructure and improving database reliability, automation, and tooling.

Perks and Benefits

• Cloudflare is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusiveness.
• Reasonable accommodations are provided to qualified individuals with disabilities.
• Opportunity to be part of a company with a soul that aims to protect the free and open Internet.