Database Reliability Engineer: PostgreSQL & Observability

Starling; Cardiff; Hybride; GBP 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

25 days holiday

Birthday leave

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Cycle to work

Résumé du poste

Starling Bank seeks talented data professionals to join its data teams, delivering meaningfully impactful insights across Banking Services, Customer Identity and Data & ML Engineering. You will help modernize and scale our PostgreSQL footprint, build Java microservices for monitoring and automation, and implement cross-cloud portability with CNPG.

You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where ownership and innovation are valued, contributing to robust security and observability

Qualifications

• Hands-on PostgreSQL experience including queries, indexing, locking and tuning
• Strong Java development for production-grade microservices
• Experience designing automation via Terraform and Java
• Familiarity with observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Humio
• Ability to architect cross-cloud portability using CNPG and cloud-native patterns
• Experience with distributed multi-tenant, multi-region data platforms
• Security-minded: built-in observability and guardrails in services

Responsabilités

• Modernize and scale the RDS fleet using Terraform
• Develop deep observability and proactive monitoring for global DB fleet
• Design and implement Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategies
• Architect cross-cloud portability for database layer
• Build Java-driven applications orchestrating monitoring, failover and replication

Connaissances

PostgreSQL

Java

Observability

Terraform

Cloud portability

Distributed systems

Security mindset

Outils

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Dash0

Sentry

Humio

CNPG

Java microservices

Description du poste

Starling Bank seeks talented data professionals to join its data teams, delivering meaningfully impactful insights across Banking Services, Customer Identity and Data & ML Engineering. You will help modernize and scale our PostgreSQL footprint, build Java microservices for monitoring and automation, and implement cross-cloud portability with CNPG.

You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where ownership and innovation are valued, contributing to robust security and observability