Remote PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer for Scale and HA

YO AI Labs; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

YO AI Labs seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL environments in a remote-capable setup. You will architect HA architectures on AWS RDS and Aurora, optimize performance, and ensure reliability at scale.

You will own backup, replication, recovery, and failover processes, troubleshoot bottlenecks, automate maintenance, support migrations, and keep clear docs for operations and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Experience designing HA PostgreSQL architectures on AWS RDS/Aurora.
• Experience optimizing database performance and queries.
• Experience with backups, replication, recovery, and failover.
• Strong troubleshooting and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage highly available PostgreSQL architectures using AWS RDS and Aurora.
• Optimize queries, indexes, partitioning, and database performance.
• Manage backup, replication, recovery, and failover processes.
• Troubleshoot slow queries, locks, deadlocks, and database bottlenecks.
• Automate database maintenance and reliability workflows.
• Support data migrations, application scaling, and operational improvements.
• Maintain clear technical documentation.

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS RDS & Aurora PostgreSQL

High-Availability Architecture

Large-Scale Databases

Database Performance Optimization

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Replication & Failover

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Cloud-native environments

Job description

YO AI Labs seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL environments in a remote-capable setup. You will architect HA architectures on AWS RDS and Aurora, optimize performance, and ensure reliability at scale.

You will own backup, replication, recovery, and failover processes, troubleshoot bottlenecks, automate maintenance, support migrations, and keep clear docs for operations and engineering teams.