Senior Database Reliability Engineer — Hybrid, Health Coverage

HFM; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model (2 days working from

Comprehensive Health Insurance (from…

Job summary

HFM is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer in Kuala Lumpur to lead the design, scaling, and reliability of our datastore infrastructure. You will collaborate with DevOps and software teams to ensure data integrity, security, and high availability across multi-asset trading platforms.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years in database reliability, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with RDBMS, backups, disaster recovery, and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Graphite.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of working experience in database reliability/DevOps
• Familiarity with Python and RDBMS design/maintenance
• Ability to optimize queries and tune database engines
• Experience in backups, restore, disaster recovery
• Version control with Git
• Excellent cross-team communication
• Experience with monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite

Responsibilities

• Plan and scale datastores to meet requirements
• Automate manual tasks to protect data integrity
• Perform backup and recovery testing and security audits
• Collaborate with DevOps and team leads for reliability
• Educate developers and build guardrails
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Guide engineers in database performance optimization

Skills

Python

Database design

Communication

Query optimization

Tools

Git

Prometheus

Grafana

Graphite

Job description

HFM is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer in Kuala Lumpur to lead the design, scaling, and reliability of our datastore infrastructure. You will collaborate with DevOps and software teams to ensure data integrity, security, and high availability across multi-asset trading platforms.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years in database reliability, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with RDBMS, backups, disaster recovery, and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Graphite.