Senior Database Reliability Engineer - Scale & Safeguards

United States Digital Space LLC

United States

Remote

USD 64,000 - 106,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to design, build, and scale the company’s database platform across applications. You will own end-to-end database reliability, combining software engineering, infrastructure, and platform thinking to create guardrails, tooling, and standards for safe, scalable database usage.

You will collaborate with application teams to improve connection management, migrations, and performance, while driving automation and

Qualifications

6+ years of professional software/infrastructure/database engineering experience.
Strong software engineering ability in at least one production language (Go, Python, or TypeScript).
Proven ability to build production-quality internal tools, libraries, or platform components.
Hands-on experience with relational databases, especially MySQL and/or PostgreSQL, in high-availability environments.
Experience with AWS RDS/Aurora and related tooling (RDS Proxy, read replicas, backups, failover).

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain shared database platform components used by company applications.
Establish reliable, scalable patterns for connecting to and interacting with relational databases across environments.
Partner with backend teams to improve database usage in application code.
Build automation and internal tooling for safer, repeatable database operations.
Define and enforce engineering standards for database access, migrations, and performance.