Cloud-First Database Reliability Engineer

Starling; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Birthday leave

Private Medical Insurance with Vitaliy

Pension scheme

Life insurance

Perkbox membership

Cycle to Work

EV leasing

Job summary

Starling Bank is seeking a talented data infrastructure engineer to help modernize and scale our database fleet, ensuring reliability across regions and clouds. You will own portability, observability, and automated migrations, shaping our data platform for high-availability operations.

You will work with Java-based backend services and champion security-minded, observable architectures, collaborating across teams to deliver resilient fintech services for customers.

Qualifications

• Expert in PostgreSQL and Kubernetes with extensive production experience.
• Strong belief in infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Passion for multi-tenant, multi-region, and multi-cloud architectures.
• Security-focused with emphasis on observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry/Humio).
• Proficient in Java backend services and data orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and scale database and data infrastructure to ensure reliability across global deployments.
• Architect cross-cloud portability and provider-agnostic deployments (AWS, GCP).
• Enhance observability and proactive monitoring to preempt performance issues.
• Support data replication, zero-downtime migrations, and data mobility strategies.
• Design and implement robust business continuity and disaster recovery processes.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Distributed systems

Java

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Java

Job description

Starling Bank is seeking a talented data infrastructure engineer to help modernize and scale our database fleet, ensuring reliability across regions and clouds. You will own portability, observability, and automated migrations, shaping our data platform for high-availability operations.

You will work with Java-based backend services and champion security-minded, observable architectures, collaborating across teams to deliver resilient fintech services for customers.