Remote Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer

ClickUp; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Database Operations team. You’ll oversee PostgreSQL databases on Linux in AWS, focusing on performance, availability, integrity and security across environments.

Responsibilities include backups, recovery, patching, vacuuming, reindexing, monitoring, capacity planning, user access, schema changes, and production incident support. Excellent problem-solving and documentation are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a senior DBA or database engineering role.
• Strong PostgreSQL administration experience with backups and performance tuning.
• Linux administration and AWS (RDS, Aurora, EC2, S3) knowledge.
• Security, access control, and compliance best practices.
• Experience with large-scale production databases (250GB+).
• SQL proficiency and scripting (Bash or Python).
• Ability to document configurations, procedures, and changes.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL databases in production.
• Ensure availability and data integrity through proactive maintenance.
• Handle backups, restore, and disaster recovery testing.
• Manage access, roles, and security.
• Performance tuning and query optimization support for applications.
• Capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Document configurations and operational procedures.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

Linux administration

SQL

Scripting (Bash/Python)

AWS cloud

Performance tuning

Backup and DR

On-call support

Tools

AWS RDS

Aurora

EC2

S3

pg_dump/restore

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Database Operations team. You’ll oversee PostgreSQL databases on Linux in AWS, focusing on performance, availability, integrity and security across environments.

Responsibilities include backups, recovery, patching, vacuuming, reindexing, monitoring, capacity planning, user access, schema changes, and production incident support. Excellent problem-solving and documentation are essential.