Senior Database Reliability Engineer

ClickUp; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Database Operations team in London. You will own day‑to‑day PostgreSQL administration on AWS, ensuring performance, security, availability, and data integrity across environments.

You’ll lead backups, DR testing, capacity planning, and migrations while partnering with application teams on tuning and releases. Strong Linux, scripting, and documentation skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in senior database administration or DB engineering.
• Strong PostgreSQL administration incl. backups, recovery, performance tuning.
• Solid database security, access control, and compliance practices.
• Experience with large production databases (250GB+).
• Strong Linux administration and scripting skills.
• Experience with AWS cloud deployments (RDS, Aurora, EC2).
• Excellent documentation and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL databases in production (AWS).
• Ensure availability, performance, and data integrity through proactive maintenance.
• Perform patching, upgrades, vacuuming, reindexing, and statistics management.
• Execute backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures with testing.
• Manage user access, security, and compliance.
• Capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and contention issues.
• Support app teams with query tuning and schema changes.
• Manage migrations and change requests with minimal downtime.
• Maintain documentation of configurations and procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production incident support.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Linux admin

SQL

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Monitoring tools

AWS (RDS/Aurora/EC2)

Database security

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL tooling

RDS/Aurora

Job description

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible.

About This Role

ClickUp is looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Database Operations team. You’ll be responsible for the performance, integrity, security, and availability of our PostgreSQL databases running on Linux in AWS. This role focuses on day-to-day database administration, operational excellence, and ensuring data is consistently reliable and well-managed across environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL databases (250GB+) in production environments (AWS RDS, Aurora, EC2)
• Ensure database availability, performance, and data integrity through proactive monitoring and maintenance
• Perform routine database administration tasks including patching, upgrades, vacuuming, reindexing, and statistics management
• Execute and manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures, including regular testing of recovery plans
• Handle user access management, roles, and database security to ensure compliance with best practices
• Perform capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting
• Troubleshoot database issues, including performance bottlenecks, locking/contention, and failed jobs
• Support application teams with query tuning, schema changes, and release deployments
• Manage database migrations, upgrades, and change requests with minimal downtime
• Maintain documentation for database configurations, standards, and operational procedures
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for production incidents

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a senior database administrator or Database Engineering role
• Strong hands‑on PostgreSQL administration experience, including backups, recovery, and performance tuning
• Solid understanding of database security, access control, and compliance practices
• Experience managing large-scale production databases (250GB+), including maintenance and lifecycle management
• Strong Linux administration skills (processes, disk, memory, networking)
• Experience with monitoring tools and performance diagnostics
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, or similar)
• Familiarity with cloud‑based database deployments, preferably AWS (RDS, Aurora, EC2, S3)
• Strong organizational and documentation skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with database auditing, compliance, or governance frameworks
• Familiarity with ETL processes, data pipelines, or reporting systems
• Experience with high availability setups, replication, and failover management
• Exposure to other database systems (MySQL, SQL Server, or NoSQL platforms)
• Experience supporting enterprise or highly regulated environments

Equal Opportunity Employer

ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for roles outside of engineering and product at this time. Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed, but is instead based on the business needs for that specific role at that time. Please reach out to the recruiter with any questions.