Remote Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer

Okta; Washington; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home opportunities

Health + Wellness

Financial Benefits

Pay + Incentives

Time Off

Everyday Living

Resources

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.