Remote PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer (HA & Cloud)

YO AI Labs

North Carolina

Remote

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking an experienced Senior Database Reliability Engineer to architect, optimize, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL environments in a cloud setting. You will ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across large-scale databases using AWS RDS and Aurora.

Key responsibilities include designing HA architectures, optimizing queries, backups and failover, and automating maintenance.

Qualifications

5+ years of production PostgreSQL experience.
Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and replication.
Experience managing large-scale, high-traffic databases.
Familiarity with Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud-native environments.
Experience with data platforms, ETL, analytics workloads, and monitoring tools.
Strong analytical, communication, and troubleshooting 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.