Lead Database Reliability Engineer PostgreSQL & Kubernetes

Starling; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work

Pension Scheme

Life Insurance

Job summary

Starling Bank is seeking experienced Data Platform engineers to modernize and scale our database and data infrastructure. You will design cloud-native solutions, improve observability, and ensure zero-downtime migrations across regions.

Collaboration with product and security is essential to deliver reliable services. The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, multi-cloud strategies, and robust data governance.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with PostgreSQL databases and advanced SQL.
• Strong Kubernetes skills for stateful workloads.
• Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation.
• Java-based backend services and data layer orchestration.
• Focus on data modeling and relational schema design.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and scale the RDS footprint with automated upgrades.
• Architect cross-cloud portability for AWS and GCP.
• Improve observability and monitoring of the database fleet.
• Support data streaming and zero-downtime migrations.
• Design robust BC/DR strategies for global resilience.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Java

Data modeling

Job description

Starling Bank is seeking experienced Data Platform engineers to modernize and scale our database and data infrastructure. You will design cloud-native solutions, improve observability, and ensure zero-downtime migrations across regions.

Collaboration with product and security is essential to deliver reliable services. The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, multi-cloud strategies, and robust data governance.