Software Engineer (DevOps) - Database Reliability

Requirements

• Experience managing highly available PostgreSQL clusters on bare metal or cloud outside of managed services
• Operational experience with PostgreSQL lifecycle tasks, including version upgrades, backup and restore workflows, replication configuration, and DR strategy implementation
• A deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals, including query planning, indexing strategies, vacuuming, performance tuning, and partitioning
• Monitoring and observability experience with PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of database security, including TLS setup, roles, auditing, and encryption at rest/in transit
• To be comfortable troubleshooting live production issues, including performance degradation, lock contention, replication lag, or node failures
• Experience with cloud providers, such as GCP and AWS
• Experience with distributed systems, including scaling, fault-tolerance, load-balancing, networking, security, etc.

Nice to have

• Experience using Consul for highly available database clusters
• Experience monitoring solutions, such as NewRelic, StackDriver, Prometheus, etc.
• Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault
• Experience as a backend developer
• Familiarity with Java and Python database drivers
• Experience with continuous delivery using Kubernetes

What you'll be doing

• Developing self-service database tools used by over 1k engineers
• Building and optimising automation for database provisioning, scaling, and maintenance
• Leading and supporting incident response for production database issues, ensuring reliability and fast recovery
• Delivering scalable, user-friendly platforms for provisioning and configuration management (IaC) across our product teams
• Monitoring and optimising resource costs to ensure efficient use and minimise waste
• Implementing out-of-the-box observability solutions for proactive system monitoring
• Ensuring compliance with industry standards through automated processes and continuous checks