Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer — Remote

Storyblok GmbH; Linz; Remote; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly remote work stipend

Home office equipment

Sick leave benefit and 25 days ofleave

Job summary

Storyblok GmbH is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the PostgreSQL data platform (Aurora PostgreSQL) and its cost efficiency. You will drive query and index strategy, perform zero-downtime upgrades, and manage backups, replication, and capacity planning.

You will work as part of the Infrastructure team on Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and security tooling, and share on-call duties. You will collaborate with backend, DevOps, Security, Product, and Data teams to ensure safe,

Qualifications

• 7+ years in database engineering, reliability, or SRE with PostgreSQL ownership.
• Deep PostgreSQL internals, MVCC, indexing, vacuum, locking, and configuration tuning.
• Proven experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS managed services.
• Zero-downtime upgrades and complex schema migrations on large tables.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of the PostgreSQL data platform.
• Lead schema migrations with zero downtime and manage backups, DR, and replication.
• Collaborate with Backend, DevOps, Security, and Data teams; participate in on-call.

Skills

PostgreSQL depth

Aurora PostgreSQL

Zero-downtime upgrades

Query optimization

MVCC internals

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Storyblok GmbH is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the PostgreSQL data platform (Aurora PostgreSQL) and its cost efficiency. You will drive query and index strategy, perform zero-downtime upgrades, and manage backups, replication, and capacity planning.

You will work as part of the Infrastructure team on Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and security tooling, and share on-call duties. You will collaborate with backend, DevOps, Security, Product, and Data teams to ensure safe,