Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer — Remote

YO AI Labs; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to architect, optimize, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL environments in a remote role. You will ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across cloud-based database systems on AWS.

Responsibilities include designing HA PostgreSQL architectures with AWS RDS/Aurora, tuning performance, managing backups and failover, and automating reliability workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience with PostgreSQL production deployments and AWS RDS/Aurora.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and replication.
• Experience with large-scale, high-traffic databases.
• Familiarity with Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud-native environments.
• Experience with data platforms, ETL, analytics workloads, and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage highly available PostgreSQL architectures using AWS RDS and Aurora.
• Optimize queries, indexes, partitioning, and database performance.
• Manage backup, replication, recovery, and failover processes.
• Troubleshoot slow queries, locks, deadlocks, and database bottlenecks.
• Automate database maintenance and reliability workflows.
• Support data migrations, application scaling, and operational improvements.
• Maintain clear technical documentation.

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS RDS & Aurora PostgreSQL

High-Availability Architecture

Large-Scale Databases

Database Performance Optimization

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Replication & Failover

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

YO AI Labs is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to architect, optimize, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL environments in a remote role. You will ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across cloud-based database systems on AWS.

Responsibilities include designing HA PostgreSQL architectures with AWS RDS/Aurora, tuning performance, managing backups and failover, and automating reliability workflows.