Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer – Remote & DBaaS

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Vacation 24 days + 10 holidays

Private medical insurance compensation

Co-working and gym reimbursement

Education budget

Job summary

Remotedxb is seeking an experienced DB Engineer to own PostgreSQL reliability, implement HA with Patroni and PgBouncer, and drive resilience across the database estate. Your role includes disaster recovery planning, automation of DBA workflows, and enabling self-service capabilities for engineering teams.

You will work with ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis, improving observability with Grafana and SLO-driven incident response.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL in production environments.
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, WAL, transactions, locks, indexes).
• Proven experience with highly available databases and failover/recovery.
• Strong Linux and infrastructure fundamentals (systemd, networking, storage, TLS).
• Automation skills with Ansible and scripting.
• Ability to support multiple database engines.
• Practical use of AI engineering assistants like Claude and Codex.
• Upper-intermediate English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Own production PostgreSQL reliability including HA design, Patroni, PgBouncer, replication, and query tuning.
• Improve disaster recovery with tested restores, documented recovery paths, and measurable RTO/RPO targets.
• Support the wider database estate including ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Automate DBA workflows using Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, and GitLab CI/CD.
• Build DBaaS-style self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Improve observability and incident response using Grafana, metrics, logs, and SLOs.

Skills

PostgreSQL

High availability

SQL performance tuning

Linux

Ansible

Scripting

Terraform/OpenTofu

GitLab CI/CD

AI tooling (Claude/Codex)

English (Upper-intermediate)

Tools

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Redis

Patroni

PgBouncer

TLS

systemd

Terraform/OpenTofu

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

Job description

Remotedxb is seeking an experienced DB Engineer to own PostgreSQL reliability, implement HA with Patroni and PgBouncer, and drive resilience across the database estate. Your role includes disaster recovery planning, automation of DBA workflows, and enabling self-service capabilities for engineering teams.

You will work with ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis, improving observability with Grafana and SLO-driven incident response.