Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer - AWS & On‑Call

ClickUp; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join the Database Operations team. You will be responsible for PostgreSQL databases on Linux in AWS, focusing on day-to-day administration, operational excellence, and reliable data management across environments.

Lead backups, restores, upgrades, and performance tuning while ensuring security and access controls. You’ll collaborate with product teams, participate in on-call rotations, and help drive disaster recovery readiness across

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a senior database admin or Database Eng role.
• Strong PostgreSQL administration skills incl. backups, restore, and performance tuning.
• Knowledge of database security, access control, and compliance practices.
• Experience with large-scale production DBs (250GB+).
• Solid Linux admin skills and scripting ability (Bash, Python).
• Familiarity with AWS RDS, Aurora, EC2, S3 DB deployments.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL databases (250GB+) in production (AWS RDS, Aurora, EC2).
• Ensure database availability, performance, and data integrity via proactive monitoring.
• Perform routine tasks: patching, vacuuming, reindexing, and stats management.
• Execute backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures with tested plans.
• Manage user access, roles, and database security for best practices.
• Capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting.
• Troubleshoot bottlenecks, locking, and failed jobs.
• Support application teams with query tuning, schema changes, and deployments.
• Manage migrations, upgrades, and change requests with minimal downtime.
• Maintain docs for configurations, standards, and operations.
• Participate in on-call rotations for production incidents.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

Linux administration

SQL scripting

AWS cloud (RDS/Aurora/EC2)

Backup and recovery

Performance tuning

Security and access control

On-call support

Documentation

Tools

Monitoring tools

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join the Database Operations team. You will be responsible for PostgreSQL databases on Linux in AWS, focusing on day-to-day administration, operational excellence, and reliable data management across environments.

Lead backups, restores, upgrades, and performance tuning while ensuring security and access controls. You’ll collaborate with product teams, participate in on-call rotations, and help drive disaster recovery readiness across