Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer at Scale

United States Digital Space LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 143,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health insurance

Paid leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) with deep PostgreSQL expertise to design, operate, and optimize our data persistence layer powering mission-critical systems. You will work with SRE, Platform and Engineering teams to ensure performance, reliability, and automation across the database environment.

This hands-on role focuses on resilient data infrastructure, high-availability architectures, and proactive incident response.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in high-volume environments.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals (WAL, MVCC, vacuum tuning, indexing).
• Production experience with MySQL (InnoDB, replication, tuning).
• Advanced SQL and schema design capabilities.
• Experience with Linux, networking, and systems troubleshooting.
• Experience building automation and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters (replication, sharding, failover).
• Optimize queries, indexing, schema design, and storage engines.
• Perform capacity planning, workload modeling, and growth forecasting.
• Own high-availability strategies including multi-AZ/multi-region setups and DR.
• Build automation for provisioning, backups, failovers, and schema management.
• Lead incident response for database issues and perform root-cause analysis.

Skills

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL

Linux

Go

Python

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

pg_stat_statements

HA/Failover tooling

PgBouncer/HAProxy

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) with deep PostgreSQL expertise to design, operate, and optimize our data persistence layer powering mission-critical systems. You will work with SRE, Platform and Engineering teams to ensure performance, reliability, and automation across the database environment.

This hands-on role focuses on resilient data infrastructure, high-availability architectures, and proactive incident response.