Platform & SRE Engineer (Database and Search Platform)

Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Purposeful work

Excellent engineering culture

Work-life balance

Opportunities to innovate

Job summary

Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies is seeking an experienced Platform & SRE Engineer to design, develop, and maintain large-scale database and search infrastructures. The role demands strong expertise in database systems and software engineering to ensure scalability and reliability.

Join us to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to impactful projects while enjoying an excellent engineering culture and work-life balance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with database systems, including relational and NoSQL.
• Experience in data modeling, schema design, and performance tuning.
• Experience in cloud-native technologies for CI/CD and infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-available, scalable databases and search platforms.
• Design and implement data integration and migration pipelines.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship as a subject matter expert.

Skills

Database systems expertise

Search technologies

Software engineering

Proficiency in Bash

Proficiency in Go

Proficiency in Java

Proficiency in Python

Cloud-native technologies

Education

Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related fields

Tools

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

AWS RDS

Google Cloud SQL

Azure Database Services

Job description

What the role is:

We are seeking an experienced Platform & SRE engineer to design, develop, and maintain our large-scale database and search infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in database systems, search technologies and software engineering. The Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, performance, and reliability of our database and search systems, developing new features and evaluating new technologies to support our growing user base.

What you will be working on:

• Build and maintain high‑available, scalable large‑scale databases and search platforms using technologies like PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
• Design and implement data integration and migration pipelines to ingest data from various integration points including APIs, files, and/or other databases
• Improve platform availability and performance through use of SRE practices
• Conduct incident management, including troubleshooting, resolution and post‑mortem of the database and search platforms
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to fellow engineers as a subject matter expert in database and search platform engineering
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including projects, engineering and operations to ensure platform and product usability and alignment to organisational goals

What we are looking for:

• Background in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related fields
• 3+ years of experience with database systems, including relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
• Proficiency in programming languages, including Bash, Go, Java, Python
• Experience in cloud‑native technologies for container orchestrations, CI/CD, infrastructure automations and observability
• Experience with data modelling, schema design, performance tuning and data migration
• As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), only Singapore Citizens will be considered.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in managing physical and virtual infrastructures
• Experience in managing cloud database and search services using AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, or Azure Database Services
• Passion for open‑source technologies

Why join us?

• The work is purposeful and meaningful
• You will work with the best engineers
• We work with modern technologies and tech stacks
• We have excellent engineering culture and work‑life balance
• We aspire to engineering and operational excellence
• We empower to innovate
• We grow together as a family