Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer (AWS)

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

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.