Site Reliability Engineer – Database Focus

• Design and maintain highly available database cluster topologies across public clouds
• Leverage automated scaling, sharding mechanisms, and read-replica strategies
• Optimize sub-millisecond database query performance through index evaluations, locking-contention analysis, and SQL script rewrites
• Orchestrate automated backup and disaster recovery validation sweeps
• Configure point-in-time recovery (PITR) parameters and conduct multi-region failover tests
• Build automated telemetry dashboards and proactive alerts using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog
• Track database health metrics including IOPS, CPU utilization, and connections
• Write automation scripts in Python, Go, or Bash for database maintenance, schema migration deployments, and resource adjustments
• Diagnose and remediate production database performance bottlenecks
• Resolve replication lags, connection pool limits, memory usage leaks, and deadlocks
• Enforce data safety and governance protocols
• Configure encryption-at-rest policies, fine-grained access parameters, and compliance masking routines

• 5 to 9 years of core systems engineering or database administration experience
• 4+ dedicated years actively managing high-scale, cloud-native relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora) or NoSQL databases
• Strong technical mastery of database engine configurations
• Experience with connection poolers such as PgBouncer
• Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform
• Deep understanding of write-ahead logging (WAL), isolation levels, transaction mechanics, distributed storage bounds, and network latency impacts
• Mandatory certification: AWS Certified Database - Specialty, Certified Postgres Professional, or Oracle Database Administration Certified Professional
• Prior experience implementing large-scale live database data migrations with minimal production operational windows preferred
• Familiarity with distributed database engines or streaming message queues such as CockroachDB, Kafka, or Debezium preferred

• No benefits or compensation extras are specified