Senior Database Reliability Engineer I - Germany/Austria/UK

Job summary

Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of a production PostgreSQL data platform, primarily Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, supporting a headless content management system. Lead query and index tuning, upgrades, safe schema migrations, replication, backup and disaster recovery, while contributing to AWS infrastructure automation with Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and security. Participate in incident response and help engineering teams make safe, informed database decisions.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of relevant database engineering, database reliability, infrastructure, or SRE experience
• Significant hands-on ownership of production PostgreSQL
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, MVCC, query plans, indexes, vacuum, locking, connection pooling, and configuration
• Strong experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services
• Track record delivering zero-downtime upgrades and complex migrations on large, busy tables
• Experience with physical and logical replication, partitioning, read scaling, backups, and disaster recovery
• Experience with Terraform and AWS
• Strong Linux fundamentals and fluency in at least one scripting language
• Experience with monitoring, observability, IAM, secrets management, and network segmentation
• Experience with production change, incident, and problem management and Git-based CI/CD
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in a remote-first organization
• Willingness and ability to participate in an on-call rotation

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, performance, and scalability of the PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora platform
• Tune queries, indexes, execution plans, and database configuration
• Lead major-version upgrades and zero-downtime schema migrations
• Manage vacuum strategy, bloat, connections, locking, replication, and capacity
• Review schema changes and build database-change guardrails and tooling
• Own backup, restore, and disaster recovery, including restore drills and compliance controls
• Model database capacity and costs and improve cost efficiency
• Deliver AWS infrastructure and automation using Terraform
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows for safe database changes
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Participate in on-call, incident response, and postmortems
• Document practices, mentor engineers, and improve database knowledge across the organization
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve productivity and work quality

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Relocation