Senior Postgres Reliability Engineer (RDS/Aurora)

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

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.