Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Siri InfoSolutions Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Siri InfoSolutions Inc is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to optimize PostgreSQL in cloud, Kubernetes, and data systems. You will work across SRE and data teams to ensure scalable, secure, and highly available databases and services.

You will plan deployments, improve backup/recovery, and contribute to automated operations in a hybrid San Jose/remote setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, operating, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production with cloud services.
• Experience managing production databases across stacks, including Kubernetes and AWS data services.
• 3+ years Linux systems engineering and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Maintain PostgreSQL infrastructure in cloud environments for performance and reliability.
• Design, build and maintain ETL data pipelines and data migrations.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.

Skills

PostgreSQL production experience

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Linux systems engineering

Automation scripting

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef/Puppet

Amazon RDS

Job description

Role: Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Location: San Jose, CA/Remote

Term: Full Time

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 5+ years of experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production environments with previous work with cloud infrastructure and managed data services, including PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, Amazon RDS, AWS, Terraform, service discovery, and secrets management.
• 5+ years of experience managing production database or distributed data systems across application, database, operating system, storage, and network layers.
• 3+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering (performance tuning, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, and networking) and automating infrastructure or database operations with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• 2+ years of experience using at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, or Perl for automation and operational tooling.
• Experience working in a polyglot production data environment, including at least one non-PostgreSQL system such as Kafka/MSK, ClickHouse, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, or a similar distributed data system.

Roles & Responsibilities

• As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you will help make Meraki's database and data systems reliable, scalable, secure, and operable. You will combine database engineering, reliability engineering, and platform automation to support relational databases, streaming systems, analytical stores, and low-latency data services.
• Plan, administer, maintain, and secure the PostgreSQL infrastructure in collaboration with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Design, build, and maintain ETL pipelines for PostgreSQL, as well as develop procedures and scripts for data migration.
• Perform operational database administration tasks such as installation, upgrades, patching, backup/recovery, monitoring, capacity planning, and architectural changes in cloud environments.
• Participate in production operations such as on-call rotation, incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-incident review processes.

Good to Have:

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building database platform tooling, self-service workflows, and paved paths that enable application teams to use data systems safely and efficiently.
• Ability to operate MSK/Kafka, ClickHouse, or Redis at scale, covering clu ster operations, replication, partitioning or sharding, retention, capacity planning, and workload tuning.
• Previous responsibility for refining reliability practices for production data systems, such as SLOs, disaster recovery plans, backup validation, and failover testing.
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and operational behavior, including concurrency, transaction consistency, replication, maintenance, backup and recovery, indexing, and query performance.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally by producing design documents, leading.