Senior Database Reliability Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to build the most amazing product experience. This role ensures operational excellence by maintaining a stable, secure, compliant, and highly available database platform. This role requires a mix of strong hands-on technical skills in automation scripting, database administration, platform integration, agile project management and communication. For this role you will require good communication skills, being detail-oriented, strategic, and the ability to continually adapt, prioritize, and multi-task in a fast-paced environment is required, You will need to be a self-starter, ready to dig in and own projects, collaborate cross-functionally, and deliver quality results.

What you'll do

• Manage databases in a cloud environment with end-to-end automation including administration, observability, troubleshooting, configuration changes, upgrades, and migrations.
• Work Independently and closely with developers, provide DBA support for multiple applications in development, QA,  Staging and Production environments.
• Effectively design, implement, maintain, and optimize databases in challenging environments.
• Design, implementation and maintenance of PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse databases.
• Troubleshoot and monitor database performance and optimize queries for efficiency.
• Automate database deployment, configuration, and management tasks.
• Implement and maintain database security policies, roles, and access controls.
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide support for critical database issues outside of regular business hours.
• Work on automating implementation and operational activities using CI/CD Pipelines
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, HA and DR mechanisms

Qualifications

• At least 4+ years hands-on experience in database administration, with a strong focus on PostgreSQL.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• SQL expert, proficient in languages like Python or other programming languages.
• Utilize expertise in cloud security to implement and maintain security controls, monitoring and compliance measures for cloud based database applications.
• Good knowledge of database design principles, performance tuning, and optimization techniques.
• Knowledge of any one of cloud environments like GCP and AWS including compute, networking, storage, and security.
• Nice to have experience on ELK, Clickhouse, Kafka, Terraform and Kubernetes
• Should be proactive and innovative, with hands-on experience managing and troubleshooting database systems in a startup environment.
• Strong technical communication skills (written and verbal) in English
• Any certification on Cloud Administration, Kubernetes or Database technologies is plus.

Benefits

Why it would be awesome to work with us

• 🍹 Unlimited Annual Leave: We prioritize your well-being and trust you to manage your time.
• 🏝️ Flexible Working: Whether from home, a coffee shop, or our global hubs, work where you're most comfortable.
• 💪 Project Ownership: You get to lead  the initiatives you're passionate about, professionally or socially.
• 🌱 Grow with us: We're invested in your personal and professional development.
• 🌎 Global, diverse, and innovative team: Be part of a welcoming community from 30+ countries, where unique perspectives drive innovation.
• 🤝 Feel at home: Work closely with colleagues who value your voice, share our E.A.C.H. values, and help you be the best version of yourself.
• 🎉 Celebrate together: Enjoy remote and hub company and team  events that strengthen our bonds and build a fun culture.

Our Values

• EXCELLENCE: We pursue mastery and craftsmanship. "Good enough" is our enemy. We have a thirst and desire for knowledge. There's always an opportunity to be better.
• AUTONOMY: We act independently when recognizing opportunities for improvement. We seek guidance and clear goals instead of orders. We self-assess the quality and impact of our work.
• COURAGE: We share our opinion, even if it's uncomfortable. We are candid with colleagues. We are willing to experiment and try something new, even if we're not sure it will succeed.
• HUMBLENESS: We crave opportunities to learn from the people around us. We leave our egos outside the office. We focus on listening to other perspectives.