Database Site Reliability Engineer

Job summary

Compare the Market is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to design, configure, and operate highly available database and data storage systems. This role involves driving reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across database and data platform environments, leading platform improvement initiatives, and participating in incident response. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in operating and improving production database or data platform systems and a solid understanding of database design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering principles.

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating and improving production database or data platform systems
• Proven ability to own services end-to-end and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and operability
• Comfortable making technical decisions, balancing performance, scalability, security, cost, and long-term sustainability
• Solid understanding of database design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering principles
• Experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident management practices
• Understanding of data platforms, data pipelines, and how data supports analytics and business services
• Strong technical expertise with excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills
• Comfortable working across engineering and data teams, contributing to platform evolution and developing technical capabilities

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and operate highly available database and data storage systems
• Drive reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across database and data platform environments
• Lead platform improvement initiatives from design through deployment and production support
• Monitor, optimize, and automate database operations to improve resilience, availability, and efficiency
• Identify and address technical debt, capacity constraints, performance bottlenecks, and operational risks across the data platform
• Support reliability of data pipelines and services by ensuring scalable, performant, and well-governed storage and database layers
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities to strengthen platform stability
• Collaborate with engineers and data specialists to share knowledge, improve standards, and evolve platform capabilities

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