Database Reliability Engineer - Hybrid, Cross-Cloud RDS

Starling; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private Medical Insurance with Vitalty

Cycle to Work

Salary Sacrificed Pension

Perkbox

Job summary

Starling Bank is hiring for a data-focused engineering role within our hybrid data environment. You will help modernize and scale the RDS fleet, architect cross-cloud portability, and advance observability across a global database fleet. Strong Postgres, Kubernetes, and cloud-native experience are essential.

Join a fast-moving fintech team with a strong focus on reliability, security, and data-driven decision making. Hybrid working with in-office collaboration is encouraged.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Postgres and Kubernetes for stateful workloads.
• Experience with cloud-native patterns to enable multi-cloud deployment.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and scale the RDS fleet with automated upgrades and performance tuning.
• Architect cross-cloud portability for AWS and GCP.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

CNPG

Java

Distributed systems

Security & observability

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Humio

Job description

Starling Bank is hiring for a data-focused engineering role within our hybrid data environment. You will help modernize and scale the RDS fleet, architect cross-cloud portability, and advance observability across a global database fleet. Strong Postgres, Kubernetes, and cloud-native experience are essential.

Join a fast-moving fintech team with a strong focus on reliability, security, and data-driven decision making. Hybrid working with in-office collaboration is encouraged.