Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Trumid; United States; Remote; USD 225,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Collaborative culture

Dynamic on-site office

Job summary

Trumid is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL SRE to own the durability, recoverability, and performance of the Postgres/RDS fleet across all environments. You will work with the databases side of our SRE team to drive reliability through failover drills and observability improvements.

Five+ years in production PostgreSQL at scale, strong grasp of replication, WAL, MVCC, and backup/restore, plus IaC and scripting in Terraform, Python, and Bash, are essential.

Qualifications

• Five or more years running production PostgreSQL at scale, ideally on RDS/Aurora.
• Experience with replication, WAL, MVCC and vacuum behavior.
• Proven ability to own data durability, restore, and DR drills.

Responsibilities

• Own durability, recoverability, and performance of Postgres/RDS fleet across environments.
• Verify restore-tested coverage and timed failovers with defined RPO/RTO.
• Own data lifecycle: retention, access control, encryption posture.
• Hunt engine pathologies: lock contention, WAL throughput, replica lag, bloat.
• Develop observability and AI-assisted tooling for health checks and migrations.

Skills

PostgreSQL

RDS/Aurora

WAL mechanics

MVCC

Replication

Backup/Restore

SRE

Terraform

Python

Bash

Linux

Observability

Prometheus/Grafana

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Job description

About us.

Trumid is a dynamic fintech revolutionizing the landscape of fixed income trading. With intelligent, easy-to-use, electronic solutions, we are rapidly growing and seeking exceptional talent to help redefine the boundaries of technology and finance.

Founded in 2014 by a team of fixed income market experts, Trumid has quickly become one of the top three corporate bond e-trading platforms in the U.S. Today, over 1,300 traders from an extensive and expanding client network of 890+ buy-and sell-side institutions transact on Trumid monthly.

With a rich history of innovation and a unique ability to innovate at scale, we collaborate closely with our clients, iterating quickly toward optimal solutions. With market share and client engagement at all-time highs and our pace of product development faster than ever, this is an exciting and transformative time at Trumid.

Our business model thrives on participation, and so does our company culture. We rely on every team member's contribution to help us accomplish our goals. To succeed at Trumid, you must be curious, passionate about your craft, ambitious, collaborative, and driven. Learn more at www.trumid.com

The opportunity.

This role owns data resilience and continuity, and the scope test is simple: if losing it loses data, or makes data unavailable, its yours. The job exists so that data-layer failure modes - storage contention, replica lag, region loss - are found and retired in drills, not discovered in production. Our reliability doctrine is to assume failure and concentrate statefulness into asmall core of systems proven against specific failure modes. Postgres is the heart of that core: everything around it gets to be disruptible because the data layer is not.

You'd join the databases side of our SRE team, working alongside deep Postgres expertise. Some of what you'd walk into:

• A production RDS fleet backing a live trading venue, with performance work that goes deep: we've characterized WAL-write contention under concurrent commits down to the fsync level, and are weighing group-commit tuning, dedicated log volumes, and storage-class changes against actual measurements.
• Disaster recovery as an engineering discipline: automated cross-region failover with promotion measured in minutes, and restore paths (snapshot, point-in-time, logical) validated by timed, documented drills on a fixed cadence.
• Database observability and AI-assisted tooling: engine performance telemetry exported into Prometheus and Grafana, modular database health-check skills, and an automated reviewer for schema-migration PRs.

What you'll do?

• Own the durability, recoverability, and performance of the Postgres/RDS fleet across every environment: replication, failover, backup and restore, and storage behavior under load.
• Make recovery provable: restore-tested coverage of every production database, timed failover drills, and measured RPO/RTO per tier - evidence, not assertion.
• Own the data lifecycle end to end: retention and cleanup policies that preserve recoverability, access control at the data layer, encryption posture, and knowing where sensitive datalives.
• Hunt performance pathologies at the engine level: lock contention, WAL throughput, replica lag, bloat, index hygiene, write amplification.
• Build database observability with the team, and extend our AI-assisted operations tooling (health-check skills, migration PR review).

About you.

• Five or more years running production PostgreSQL at meaningful scale - ideally on RDS or Aurora - with depth in the internals: replication, WAL mechanics, MVCC and vacuum behavior, query planning and performance.
• You've owned the full lifecycle of data somewhere, not just the query path: retention, backup and restore, access control, and security posture.
• Disaster-recovery experience you can talk through concretely - failovers you designed, drills you ran, and what they changed.
• Infrastructure fluency: infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar), scripting (Python, bash, SQL), Linux, and cloud storage/IOPS characteristics.
• An SRE sensibility: SLOs, blameless postmortems, and a preference for rehearsed over improvised.
• Clear writing - you leave runbooks and decision records behind you.

Nice to have.

• Warehouse and pipeline experience (BigQuery, AlloyDB, Kafka-based pipelines) - over time we intend to extend the same reliability guarantees beyond Postgres to every store that holds business data.
• Experience in regulated or fintech environments; exposure to data classification and compliance review.
• Kubernetes; Prometheus/Grafana/ELK-style observability stacks.
• Interest in AI-assisted operations tooling

Employee benefits.

• Highly competitive compensation
• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage
• Team-oriented and collaborative company culture
• Lively and dynamic office space with fully stocked kitchen

In compliance with New York City Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range for this role in New York City is between $225,000 - $265,000. This range does not include discretionary bonus or other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with this job. Several factors are considered when determining a candidate’s compensation.

Trumid is an equal opportunity employer.

Please note: All communication from Trumid's recruiting team comes from @trumid.com email addresses. We conduct remote interviews via Zoom only. We will never ask you to purchase equipment, download software (other than Zoom), or share sensitive personal information during the hiring process.