Cloud-Native Database Reliability Engineer

Starling; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Private Medical Insurance

Company pension

Perkbox membership

Cycle to Work

EV leasing

Volunteer time

Waitrose discounts

Job summary

Starling Bank in Manchester seeks talented data professionals to join our team. You will modernize and scale our RDS footprint, and build Java microservices for database monitoring and automated failover in a hybrid, fast-paced fintech environment.

You’ll work with PostgreSQL, Terraform, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Humio) to ensure performance, resilience, and security across multi-tenant deployments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on PostgreSQL experience with core concepts like query execution, indexing, locking and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and Scale the RDS Fleet using Terraform to maintain databases and automate performance tuning.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Java

Terraform

Observability

Cloud-native

Security

Distributed Systems

Multi-tenant

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Dash0

Sentry

Humio

CNPG

CloudNativePG

Job description

Starling Bank in Manchester seeks talented data professionals to join our team. You will modernize and scale our RDS footprint, and build Java microservices for database monitoring and automated failover in a hybrid, fast-paced fintech environment.

You’ll work with PostgreSQL, Terraform, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Humio) to ensure performance, resilience, and security across multi-tenant deployments.