Remote Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer

Visa Hunt; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Performance-based bonuses

Health-insurance premium reimbursement

401(K) plan with company match

Paid time off

Remote-first workforce

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to architect, optimize, and stabilize mission-critical PostgreSQL systems in a cloud-native, remote-first environment. You will drive reliability, high availability, and performance at scale across AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities include designing HA architectures, tuning queries and partitions, implementing robust DR, and collaborating with cross-functional teams on migrations and scaling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing and optimizing PostgreSQL in production.
• Expert-level knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, tuning, indexing, partitioning, and replication.
• Hands-on experience with AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, including backup, recovery, and high-availability design.
• Strong analytical abilities troubleshooting slow queries, execution plans, locks, and deadlocks.
• Experience maintaining large-scale, high-traffic databases with millions of rows.
• Clear, proactive written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently and remotely in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage highly available PostgreSQL architectures on AWS.
• Optimize performance by analyzing plans, tuning indices, and partitioning strategies.
• Ensure disaster recovery through robust backup, replication, and failover processes.
• Diagnose slow queries, locks, deadlocks, and bottlenecks in large-scale DBs.
• Automate routine maintenance and promote operational excellence.
• Collaborate with teams on migrations and scaling efforts.
• Maintain thorough documentation and clear communication.

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

AWS RDS & Aurora PostgreSQL

Performance tuning

Disaster recovery planning

High-availability design

SQL query optimization

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud-native services

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

AWS ecosystem

Job description

micro1 is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to architect, optimize, and stabilize mission-critical PostgreSQL systems in a cloud-native, remote-first environment. You will drive reliability, high availability, and performance at scale across AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities include designing HA architectures, tuning queries and partitions, implementing robust DR, and collaborating with cross-functional teams on migrations and scaling.