Database Reliability Engineer — Performance & Automation

Meanquest SA; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Meanquest SA in Geneva is seeking a skilled Database Reliability Engineer to serve as the primary database focal point for the application landscape. You will oversee database lifecycle management, patching, upgrades, and automation to improve reliability and performance across MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, CouchDB, Redis and Kafka.

You will collaborate with developers, architects, and infra teams to implement blueprints, security controls, and runbooks, while ensuring data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years in a lead position with database/infra exposure.
• Experience running PostgreSQL/MariaDB/SQL Server in large production environments.
• Proficient in at least two of the listed technologies (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis or Kafka).
• Strong English, French a plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as the main database focal point for the application teams.
• Manage database lifecycle: patching, upgrades, backups, and configurations.
• Improve query performance, indexing strategies, and data access patterns.
• Automate health checks, monitoring, and operational runbooks.
• Ensure security, compliance, data protection, and auditing.
• Maintain observability with dashboards and troubleshooting tools.
• Collaborate across application, infrastructure, and security teams.

Skills

SQL

PostgreSQL

MariaDB/MySQL

MongoDB

CouchDB

Kafka

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux

DBA experience

Education

CS degree

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Job description

Meanquest SA in Geneva is seeking a skilled Database Reliability Engineer to serve as the primary database focal point for the application landscape. You will oversee database lifecycle management, patching, upgrades, and automation to improve reliability and performance across MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, CouchDB, Redis and Kafka.

You will collaborate with developers, architects, and infra teams to implement blueprints, security controls, and runbooks, while ensuring data