Role Description
We are hiring a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join the Infrastructure DBA cell. This is a hands-on production ownership role, not a narrow ticket-processing DBA position. You will keep critical database services reliable, automate repeated work, support engineering teams, and reduce single-person dependency in our PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis operations.
PostgreSQL is the main requirement. ClickHouse experience is a strong plus, but it is not a day-one blocker. We need a senior engineer with enough database, Linux, automation, and incident-response depth to learn our ClickHouse environment quickly and operate it safely.
Your Responsibilities
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Own production PostgreSQL reliability: HA design, Patroni, PgBouncer, replication, failover, upgrades, vacuum/bloat control, query tuning, locks, indexes, capacity, backups, PITR, and restore validation.
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Improve disaster recovery and operational evidence: tested restores, documented recovery paths, measurable RTO/RPO targets, runbooks, and safe maintenance plans.
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Support the wider database estate: ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis. Troubleshoot incidents, review access and data-safety changes, improve monitoring, and learn the production ClickHouse patterns already in use.
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Automate DBA workflows with Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD, scripts, and reproducible runbooks for provisioning, grants, backups, restores, health checks, and ownership metadata.
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Help build DBaaS-style self-service capabilities for engineering teams to request databases, access, credentials, and operational checks with less manual DBA intervention.
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Improve observability and incident response through Grafana, metrics, logs, SLOs, alert rules, Opsgenie routing, and clear communication during production issues.
What Success Looks Like
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PostgreSQL clusters have tested backup and restore paths, useful dashboards, clear ownership, and documented failover procedures.
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Repeated DBA tickets become automation or self-service workflows.
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ClickHouse operational knowledge is no longer a single-person dependency.
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Database incidents have owners, runbooks, evidence, and measurable recovery paths.
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Product and engineering teams get database help faster without sacrificing safety, auditability, or reliability.
What We Expect From You
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Deep hands-on PostgreSQL experience in business-critical production environments, typically 5+ years or equivalent depth.
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Strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals and operations: MVCC, WAL, transactions, locks, indexes, query planning, replication, autovacuum, bloat, major upgrades, backups, PITR, and restore testing.
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Proven experience with highly available databases and the ability to reason about quorum, split-brain risk, failover, rollback, and recovery.
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Strong Linux and infrastructure fundamentals: systemd, networking, storage, filesystems, CPU/memory/disk bottlenecks, TLS, DNS, firewalls, and root-cause troubleshooting.
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Automation skills with Ansible and scripting. Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD, and merge-request based delivery are strong advantages.
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Ability to support more than one database engine. Ready to learn ClickHouse quickly and take responsibility for it.
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Practical use of AI engineering assistants such as Claude and Codex to improve speed and quality, while personally verifying generated SQL, commands, scripts, and operational conclusions.
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English - upper-intermediate or higher - to ensure clear communication of progress within the teams.
Nice to Have
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ClickHouse operations: replication, Keeper/ZooKeeper, MergeTree engines, distributed DDL, grants, row policies, backups, query troubleshooting, and cluster recovery.
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MongoDB replica sets and Percona Backup for MongoDB.
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Redis/Sentinel and broker/cache failure modes.
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Database observability, SLOs, golden signals, alert tuning, and executable incident runbooks.
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Building internal platforms, self-service portals, or DBaaS workflows for engineering teams.
Benefits
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A focus on professional development.
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Interesting and challenging projects.
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Fully remote work with flexible working hours, allowing you to schedule your day and work from any location worldwide.
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Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves.
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Compensation for private medical insurance.
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Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
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Budget for education.
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The opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.
