Remote Data Reliability Engineer: Scale & Secure Platforms

IXOPAY; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work within the United States

Competitive salary and benefits

Professional growth opportunities

Collaborative international team

Job summary

IXOPAY is seeking a Data Reliability Engineer to build and operate resilient data platforms powering a global payment infrastructure. This hands-on role combines software engineering, database expertise, and platform engineering to automate operations, strengthen resilience, and scale data services across cloud-native and hybrid environments.

You’ll work with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams to design scalable architectures, define SLOs/SLIs, and lead incident response

Qualifications

• Experience in Data Reliability Engineering, Database Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related infrastructure engineering role.
• Strong experience managing and optimizing enterprise-scale relational databases, including Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
• Experience designing, operating, and scaling distributed NoSQL platforms, including Azure Cosmos DB.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform, OpenTofu, or comparable technologies.
• Strong understanding of observability practices, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and performance analysis using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Azure Monitor.
• Experience supporting Linux and Windows Server environments, with a solid understanding of distributed systems, storage, and networking fundamentals.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with experience resolving complex production issues in large-scale environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated frameworks for provisioning, scaling, upgrading, and managing database infrastructure across multiple database technologies.
• Develop infrastructure as code and automation that simplifies database lifecycle management, including backups, upgrades, cloud migrations, and disaster recovery.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of scalable, resilient data architectures that support IXOPAY's growing global platform.
• Define and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) for critical data platforms.
• Engineer automated recovery solutions that improve resilience against infrastructure failures, regional outages, and data integrity issues.
• Monitor database health, resource utilization, and application performance, proactively identifying opportunities to improve scalability and efficiency.
• Partner with Software Engineering teams to optimize queries, indexing strategies, and database performance across production workloads.
• Implement security best practices including RBAC, encryption, auditing, and data governance standards.
• Lead incident response efforts for database-related production issues, performing root cause analyses and implementing long-term improvements that reduce operational risk.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and automated processes that improve team efficiency and platform reliability.
• Build software and automation that reduces operational overhead and improves the consistency of database operations.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security teams to improve observability, operational readiness, and platform resilience.
• Participate in Agile planning, share technical expertise across the organization, and continuously improve engineering practices through automation and innovation.

Skills

Data Reliability Engineering

Relational Databases

NoSQL

Scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

Linux & Windows Servers

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Prometheus

Grafana

Azure Monitor

Azure Cosmos DB

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Python

Job description

IXOPAY is seeking a Data Reliability Engineer to build and operate resilient data platforms powering a global payment infrastructure. This hands-on role combines software engineering, database expertise, and platform engineering to automate operations, strengthen resilience, and scale data services across cloud-native and hybrid environments.

You’ll work with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams to design scalable architectures, define SLOs/SLIs, and lead incident response