Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer - Remote & Flexible

CloudLinux Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Vacation 24 days

10 national holidays

Unlimited sick leave

Medical insurance allowance

Co-working and gym reimbursement

Education budget

Job summary

CloudLinux Inc. is seeking a seasoned Database Engineer to own production PostgreSQL reliability, HA design, and disaster recovery. You will support ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis, and automate DBA workflows with Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, and GitLab CI/CD.

Build DBaaS-style self-service for engineering teams and enhance observability with Grafana, metrics, logs, and SLOs. The role requires strong PostgreSQL internals knowledge, Linux fundamentals, and experience with highly available

Qualifications

• 5+ years of PostgreSQL in production environments.
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, WAL, transactions, locks, indexes).
• Proven experience with highly available databases and failover/recovery.
• Strong Linux and infrastructure fundamentals (systemd, networking, storage, TLS).
• Automation skills with Ansible and scripting.
• Ability to support multiple database engines.
• Practical use of AI engineering assistants like Claude and Codex.
• Upper-intermediate English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Own production PostgreSQL reliability including HA design and replication.
• Improve disaster recovery with tested restores and measurable RTO/RPO targets.
• Support the wider database estate (ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis).
• Automate DBA workflows using Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, and GitLab CI/CD.
• Build DBaaS-style self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Improve observability and incident response using Grafana, metrics, logs, and SLOs.

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

PostgreSQL internals

Linux fundamentals

Automation with Ansible

Scripting

Multi-engine support

AI engineering assistants (Claude/Code

English proficiency

Tools

Ansible

Terraform/OpenTofu

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

CloudLinux Inc. is seeking a seasoned Database Engineer to own production PostgreSQL reliability, HA design, and disaster recovery. You will support ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis, and automate DBA workflows with Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, and GitLab CI/CD.

Build DBaaS-style self-service for engineering teams and enhance observability with Grafana, metrics, logs, and SLOs. The role requires strong PostgreSQL internals knowledge, Linux fundamentals, and experience with highly available