Senior PostgreSQL SRE — Remote, Cloud-Scale Ops

Huntress Labs; United States; Remote; USD 215,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

Paid time off

Parental leave

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) with 5% contribution

Life and Disability insurance

Stock options for all full-time

Home office stipend

Educational allowance

BetterUp coaching access

Job summary

Huntress Labs is seeking a Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to own and optimize PostgreSQL deployments across a 24/7 production environment. This remote US role emphasizes stability, resilience, and scalability for the Huntress Security Platform’s databases that power millions of endpoints and identities.

You will design monitoring, tuning, partitioning, and replication strategies, partner with SRE on Azure deployments, and guide application teams on schema and query design to ensure

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with scaling, configuration, maintenance and management of PostgreSQL clusters in production environments.
• Expertise in designing, implementing, and supporting replication (e.g., streaming replication, logical replication), failover mechanisms, and robust backup/recovery strategies
• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL’s core architecture, including the WAL, transaction management, locking mechanisms, and the role of background processes like autovacuum.
• Extensive hands-on experience managing and maintaining large-scale (Terabyte-level or high-transaction volume) PostgreSQL databases in a live, 24/7 production environment.
• Experience with observability tools like DataDog, NewRelic, etc. (any tooling is fine)
• Deep experience of tuning critical performance parameters

Responsibilities

• Continuously review and fine-tune critical PostgreSQL configuration parameters to maximize resource utilization and match the current workload profile.
• Forecast future resource needs based on application growth and agent usage trends, and propose scaling solutions.
• Design, implement, and manage comprehensive monitoring dashboards and alerting systems to track KPIs like latency, throughput, connection count, and cache hit ratio.
• Design, implement, and maintain optimal indexing strategies to support application requirements, and systematically identify and remove redundant or underutilized indexes that degrade write performance.
• Implement and manage advanced scaling techniques such as database partitioning for large tables and, where necessary, coordinate efforts for database sharding.
• Partner with SRE team to optimize PostgreSQL deployments in Azure, ensuring efficient use of cloud‑specific storage and networking.
• Provide technical guidance to application teams on their query/schema/index designs.

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

Replication & failover

Performance tuning

Large-scale DBs

Observability tools

Azure deployments

Tools

DataDog

NewRelic

Job description

Huntress Labs is seeking a Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to own and optimize PostgreSQL deployments across a 24/7 production environment. This remote US role emphasizes stability, resilience, and scalability for the Huntress Security Platform’s databases that power millions of endpoints and identities.

You will design monitoring, tuning, partitioning, and replication strategies, partner with SRE on Azure deployments, and guide application teams on schema and query design to ensure