Remote Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer

Okta

Washington

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Okta is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to design, operate, and optimize PostgreSQL at scale. You will work with SRE, Platform, and Engineering to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability across distributed environments.

You will build automation for provisioning, backups, failovers, and schema management, and you will lead incident response with deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals and MySQL.

Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals (WAL, MVCC, bloat) and query tuning.
  • Production experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PMM, and pg_stat_statements.
  • 4+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in high-volume production environments.
  • Advanced SQL and solid schema design and query optimization understanding.
  • Experience with Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

  • Design, operationalize, and optimize the data persistence layer for large-scale systems.
  • Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Engineering to ensure performance and reliability.
  • Build and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters with replication and failover.
  • Develop automation for provisioning, backups, and schema management using Terraform, Ansible, or Kubernetes Operators.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and self-healing for PostgreSQL and MySQL.

Skills

PostgreSQL internals
Advanced SQL
Linux basics
Cloud platforms
Go or Python
On-call/incident response
MySQL familiarity
Event streaming (Kafka Debezium)
PgBouncer/HAProxy
Open-source PostgreSQL contributions

Tools

Prometheus
Grafana
Datadog
PMM
pg_stat_statements
Terraform
Ansible
Kubernetes

Job description

Okta is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to design, operate, and optimize PostgreSQL at scale. You will work with SRE, Platform, and Engineering to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability across distributed environments.

You will build automation for provisioning, backups, failovers, and schema management, and you will lead incident response with deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals and MySQL.

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