Remote Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer

Piper Companies

United States

Remote

USD 165,000 - 180,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

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401(k)

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to support PostgreSQL infrastructure, ETL pipelines, and cloud-based database platforms in a large-scale cloud environment. The role emphasizes automation, security, and reliability across production databases.

The engineer will participate in on-call rotations, incident reviews, and capacity planning, collaborating with engineering and infrastructure teams to enable platform modernization and high availability.

Qualifications

8+ years designing, administering, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production.
5+ years supporting production database systems across layers.
Experience with cloud services including AWS and managed DBs.
Linux systems engineering experience and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

Plan, administer, maintain, and secure PostgreSQL infrastructure for high availability and performance.
Develop ETL pipelines and data migrations for PostgreSQL environments.
Perform DB admin tasks including upgrades, backups, and capacity planning.
Support cloud-based DB platforms including PostgreSQL on Kubernetes and AWS RDS.
Develop automation tooling using Python/Bash.
Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
Monitor health and performance, implementing proactive improvements.
Collaborate with infra teams on scalability and modernization.