Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer - Remote & Automation

Alex Staff; Georgia; On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work worldwide

Paid vacation (24 days/year)

National holidays (10 days)

Unlimited sick leave

Private medical insurance

Co-working and gym allowance

Education budget

Innovation patent reward

Job summary

Alex Staff seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own production PostgreSQL reliability and help automate DBA workflows across ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis. You will design HA, manage failover, backups, and upgrades while learning the ClickHouse environment and ensuring safe operations.

You will automate with Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, and GitLab CI/CD, build self-service capabilities, and improve observability with Grafana and runbooks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on PostgreSQL in production.
• Deep PostgreSQL internals: MVCC, WAL, replication, autovacuum, backups.
• Experience with HA, failover, recovery and quorum considerations.
• Strong Linux and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Automation with Ansible; Terraform/OpenTofu; GitLab CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Own production PostgreSQL reliability: HA design, replication, upgrades, backups.
• Improve disaster recovery with tested restores and runbooks.
• Support ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis; troubleshoot incidents.
• Automate DBA workflows with Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD, scripts.
• Help build DBaaS self-service for databases, access, and checks.
• Improve observability with Grafana, metrics, logs, SLOs, and incident response.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Linux

Automation

Ansible

Terraform/OpenTofu

GitLab CI/CD

Shell scripting

AI tools use (Claude/Codex)

Multi-DB support

Tools

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Alex Staff seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own production PostgreSQL reliability and help automate DBA workflows across ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis. You will design HA, manage failover, backups, and upgrades while learning the ClickHouse environment and ensuring safe operations.

You will automate with Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, and GitLab CI/CD, build self-service capabilities, and improve observability with Grafana and runbooks.