Postgres & Kubernetes Reliability Engineer

Starling; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Birthday day off

Pension scheme

Life insurance

Private medical insurance

Waitrose discounts

Perkbox access

Cycle to Work

EV leasing

Volunteer time

Job summary

Starling Bank is seeking talented data engineers to modernize and scale our global database fleet. You will own reliability, automate upgrades, and implement provider-agnostic, cross-cloud data platforms across AWS and GCP.

You will build observability, implement zero-downtime migrations, and design disaster recovery with secure, scalable data pipelines. Join a hybrid, office-based UK team driving fintech innovation.

Qualifications

• Expertise with PostgreSQL and Kubernetes for stateful workloads.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform and custom APIs.
• Experience with multi-tenant, multi-region, multi-cloud architectures.
• Strong focus on security and deep observability.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and scale the RDS fleet and upgrade strategies.
• Architect cross-cloud portability across AWS and GCP.
• Develop deep observability and proactive monitoring.
• Support replication, data streaming, and zero-downtime migration.
• Design robust BC/DR automation and regional resilience.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Distributed systems

Observability

Security mindset

Java

Tools

CNPG

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Humio

Job description

Starling Bank is seeking talented data engineers to modernize and scale our global database fleet. You will own reliability, automate upgrades, and implement provider-agnostic, cross-cloud data platforms across AWS and GCP.

You will build observability, implement zero-downtime migrations, and design disaster recovery with secure, scalable data pipelines. Join a hybrid, office-based UK team driving fintech innovation.