Remote Database Reliability Engineer — Scale Analytics

Fuseenergy; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Biannual bonus

Fully expensed tech

Private health insurance

Meal allowance

Job summary

Fuse Energy is hiring a Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance and scalability of our data infrastructure. You’ll work across Postgres, ClickHouse, and DBT to build scalable pipelines and data models for analytics and product needs.

This remote role offers a competitive salary, biannual bonus and full expensed tech. Join a fast-growing energy startup backed by top investors and help us make energy abundant and affordable.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in backend or data-focused engineering
• Excellent SQL; proficiency in Python and SQL is non-negotiable
• Hands-on experience with relational databases, particularly Postgres
• Experience designing schemas and building data models that reflect real-world business logic
• Familiarity with DBT or similar data transformation frameworks
• Strong understanding of data validation, testing and quality assurance practices
• Manages all infrastructure through IaC tooling (Pulumi, AWS CDK), treating the database as code
• Grasps new business domains quickly, translating unfamiliar logic into clean, intuitive data models
• Bonus: ClickHouse or columnar databases; cloud-based data orchestration; CI/CD for data pipelines

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, performance and scalability of Fuse's database infrastructure across Postgres and ClickHouse
• Build and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines to support analytics, reporting and product needs
• Own the design and evolution of analytical schemas, translating business logic into structured, intuitive data models
• Migrate and transform data from Postgres into ClickHouse, ensuring performance and reliability
• Develop and maintain DBT models that reflect our business domain and make data easily accessible for teams
• Implement tests and data quality checks to ensure reliable, trustworthy datasets
• Identify and eliminate duplicates, improve data consistency and enforce clean modelling standards
• Manage all database and infrastructure changes through IaC, minimising direct DB modifications

Skills

SQL

Python

PostgreSQL

Data modeling

DBT

Data validation

IaC

Pulumi

AWS CDK

ClickHouse

Tools

Postgres

ClickHouse

DBT

Dagster

Pulumi

AWS CDK

Job description

Fuse Energy is hiring a Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance and scalability of our data infrastructure. You’ll work across Postgres, ClickHouse, and DBT to build scalable pipelines and data models for analytics and product needs.

This remote role offers a competitive salary, biannual bonus and full expensed tech. Join a fast-growing energy startup backed by top investors and help us make energy abundant and affordable.