Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL databases (250GB+) in production environments (AWS RDS, Aurora, EC2)
• Ensure database availability, performance, and data integrity through proactive monitoring and maintenance
• Perform routine database administration tasks including patching, upgrades, vacuuming, reindexing, and statistics management
• Execute and manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures, including regular testing of recovery plans
• Handle user access management, roles, and database security to ensure compliance with best practices
• Perform capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting
• Troubleshoot database issues, including performance bottlenecks, locking/contention, and failed jobs
• Support application teams with query tuning, schema changes, and release deployments
• Manage database migrations, upgrades, and change requests with minimal downtime
• Maintain documentation for database configurations, standards, and operational procedures

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