Remote Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer

YO AI Labs; Miami (FL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to design, optimize, and maintain PostgreSQL environments in a cloud setting. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and scalability across large-scale databases, predominantly using AWS RDS and Aurora.

Responsibilities include architecture design, query tuning, backup/recovery, and automated maintenance. Remote-first, candidates in the US are welcomed to contribute to global data platforms and analytics workloads.

Qualifications

• Production PostgreSQL experience required.
• Strong knowledge of Postgres internals and tuning.
• Experience with large-scale, high-traffic databases.
• Familiarity with Terraform, CI/CD, cloud-native environments.
• Monitoring and operational excellence skills.

Responsibilities

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

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS RDS & Aurora

High-Availability

Large-Scale DBs

Query/Perf Tuning

Backup & DR

Replication & Failover

Job description

YO AI Labs is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to design, optimize, and maintain PostgreSQL environments in a cloud setting. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and scalability across large-scale databases, predominantly using AWS RDS and Aurora.

Responsibilities include architecture design, query tuning, backup/recovery, and automated maintenance. Remote-first, candidates in the US are welcomed to contribute to global data platforms and analytics workloads.