Postgres & Cloud-Native DB Reliability Engineer

Starling; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Birthday leave

Private Medical Insurance

Life insurance 4x salary

Pension scheme

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Starling Bank is seeking talented data professionals to join our Data teams, working across Banking Services, Identity & Financial Crime, and Data & ML Engineering. You will help modernize the RDS fleet, build proactive monitoring, and design resilient cross-cloud data platforms with Java automation.

Join a fast-paced fintech environment with hybrid working, strong emphasis on ownership, and collaboration to deliver reliable database systems and services for customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Hands-on PostgreSQL experience with core concepts like indexing, locking and performance tuning.
• Terraform and Java automation to manage databases and reliability workflows.
• Experience building and operating production-grade Java microservices.
• Strong focus on observability, security guardrails and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and scale the RDS fleet using Terraform and automation.
• Build deep monitoring and alerting for a global database fleet (Prometheus, Grafana, Dash0, Sentry, Humio).
• Design and implement rigorous Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategies.
• Architect cross-cloud portability using CNPG and cloud-native patterns.
• Develop Java-driven applications to orchestrate monitoring, failover and replication workflows.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Terraform

Java

Observability

Distributed systems

Cloud portability

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Dash0

Sentry

Humio

Job description

Starling Bank is seeking talented data professionals to join our Data teams, working across Banking Services, Identity & Financial Crime, and Data & ML Engineering. You will help modernize the RDS fleet, build proactive monitoring, and design resilient cross-cloud data platforms with Java automation.

Join a fast-paced fintech environment with hybrid working, strong emphasis on ownership, and collaboration to deliver reliable database systems and services for customers worldwide.