Database Reliability Engineer

Sporty Group; Greater London; A distancia; GBP 80.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Remote-first company

Competitive salary with quarterly boni

28 days paid annual leave

Top of the line equipment

Annual company retreats

Descripción de la vacante

Sporty Group is seeking an experienced Database Reliability Engineer to own and evolve our global database stack. You will design highly available architectures, tune performance, and implement robust backup and DR strategies across multiple regions.

You will build automation tools in Go and Python to streamline operations, monitor health, and drive reliability. Remote-first team with opportunities to research and adopt new technologies in a fast-growing environment.

Formación

• 4+ years experience tackling and managing advanced MySQL and MongoDB problems.
• Self-driven Database Reliability Engineer with production-scale experience.
• Strong understanding of high availability, security, and performance best practices.

Responsabilidades

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available database architectures across regions.
• Improve existing infrastructure with performance tuning, backup/recovery, and DR procedures.
• Develop automation tools using Go/Python to streamline DB operations and reduce errors.
• Monitor DB health, set alerting based on SLO burn rates, and lead deployments.
• Provide DB design consults to dev teams and ensure data security.

Conocimientos

MySQL

MongoDB

Automation mindset

Golang

Python

SLI/SLO concepts

Herramientas

Golang

Python

Descripción del empleo

With tens of millions of visitors every week, we strive to be the best in the industry for our users. You’ll be responsible for taking ownership of our existing and new database infrastructure for multiple platforms and facilitating releases into new regions. We wrote our systems from scratch about 4 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old technologies. There’s also freedom to research and implement new technologies into our stack as you and the team see fit.

Our Stack

• Relational Databases: AWS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL
• NoSQL Databases: MongoDB Atlas, AWS DocumentDB
• Caching Layer: AWS ElastiCache, Valkey
• OLAP: Redshift
• Database Proxy: RDS Proxy
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
• CI/CD Integration: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Github Action, Helm
• Network & Security: AWS VPC, Security Groups, AWS Secrets Manager
• Programming Languages: Golang, Python

What you'll be doing

• Work in a team of DBRE and DevOps professionals
• Design, implement, and maintain highly available database architectures to support business growth across multiple countries
• Improve existing database infrastructure, including performance tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery strategies, and disaster recovery procedures
• Develop automation tools and internal platforms using Go/Python to streamline database operations, reduce manual interventions, and minimize human errors
• Monitor database health and performance metrics, establish alerting mechanisms based on SLO burn rates, and proactively identify potential issues
• Take ownership and responsibility for database operations including schema changes, data migrations, and production deployments
• Collaborate with development teams to provide database design consultation, query optimization, and troubleshooting support
• Conduct regular database security audits and implement security best practices to protect sensitive data

What you'll bring

• 4+ years experience tackling and managing advanced MySQL and MongoDB problems
• A self-driven Database Reliability Engineer with proven experience in managing large-scale database systems in production environments
• Have a deep understanding of database architecture, performance optimisation, high availability solutions, and database security best practices
• Following the latest industry trends in database technologies and are passionate about building reliable, scalable data infrastructure
• Have strong automation mindset and programming skills to build tools that improve database operations and reliability
• Understand SLI/SLO/SLA concepts and have experience implementing reliability engineering practices

What’s in it for you

• Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
• A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
• Top of the line equipment
• Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

Interview Process

• Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
• Online assessment via Hackerrank
• Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
• Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)