Remote Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer

Speedrun Talent Network; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 544,000 - 738,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Database Operations team. You’ll own PostgreSQL databases on Linux in AWS, focusing on day-to-day administration, reliability, and scalable data management across environments.

You will patch, backup, tune, and monitor production databases, ensuring high availability and security while collaborating with product teams on deployments and migrations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a senior DBA or Database Engineering role.
• PostgreSQL administration, backups, recovery, and performance tuning.
• Security, access control and compliance practices.
• Experience with large-scale production databases (250GB+).
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• SQL proficiency and scripting (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Cloud deployments, preferably AWS (RDS, Aurora, EC2, S3).
• Strong documentation and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL databases in production on AWS.
• Ensure availability, performance, and data integrity with proactive monitoring.
• Perform patching, upgrades, vacuuming, reindexing, and statistics management.
• Manage backups, restores, and disaster recovery testing.
• Handle access control, security, and compliance best practices.
• Capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and contention issues.
• Support application teams with query tuning and schema changes.
• Manage migrations and changes with minimal downtime.
• Maintain documentation of configurations and procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills

PostgreSQL admin

Linux

Monitoring

SQL scripting

AWS

Backup & Recovery

Security & Compliance

Tools

AWS RDS

Aurora

EC2

S3

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Database Operations team. You’ll own PostgreSQL databases on Linux in AWS, focusing on day-to-day administration, reliability, and scalable data management across environments.

You will patch, backup, tune, and monitor production databases, ensuring high availability and security while collaborating with product teams on deployments and migrations.