Senior Reliability Engineer

Jobtailor; Minnesota; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a seasoned Reliability/Data Platform Engineer to ensure the PCS Data Warehouse's availability, performance, and reliability in Minnesota. You will proactively identify risks, lead root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes while driving automation and platform modernization.

The role requires expertise in data warehousing, ETL, and SQL, with a track record of performance optimization and incident resolution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in reliability engineering, production support, or data platform engineering.
• Strong experience with data warehouse environments, ETL, and SQL.
• Proven experience in performance optimization and system tuning.
• Experience supporting production systems and resolving incidents.
• Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of the PCS Data Warehouse.
• Proactively identify system risk and remediate before impact.
• Lead root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.
• Reduce repeat incidents through automation and design improvements.
• Monitor data pipelines, batch processing, and platform health.
• Optimize ETL jobs, SQL queries, and data pipelines for performance and efficiency.
• Identify bottlenecks across data processing, scheduling, and infrastructure.
• Drive tuning of database workloads and batch execution windows.
• Improve throughput, reduce latency, and lower resource consumption.
• Standardize performance best practices across development teams.
• Own major incident response and coordination.
• Drive post-incident reviews and corrective actions.
• Improve MTTD and MTTR.
• Define and enforce coding standards for ETL, SQL, and data workflows.
• Automate deployments, validation, and recovery processes.
• Drive continuous platform optimization and modernization.
• Partner with ETL developers, data owners, and business teams

Skills

Reliability engineering

Production support

Data platform engineering

Performance optimization

Root cause analysis

Monitoring & observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Responsibilities

• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of the PCS Data Warehouse
• Proactively identify system risk and remediate before impact
• Lead root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes
• Reduce repeat incidents through automation and design improvements
• Monitor data pipelines, batch processing, and platform health
• Optimize ETL jobs, SQL queries, and data pipelines for performance and efficiency
• Identify bottlenecks across data processing, scheduling, and infrastructure
• Drive tuning of database workloads and batch execution windows
• Improve throughput, reduce latency, and lower resource consumption
• Standardize performance best practices across development teams
• Own major incident response and coordination
• Drive post-incident reviews and corrective actions
• Improve MTTD and MTTR
• Define and enforce coding standards for ETL, SQL, and data workflows
• Automate deployments, validation, and recovery processes
• Drive continuous platform optimization and modernization
• Partner with ETL developers, data owners, and business teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years in reliability engineering, production support, or data platform engineering
• Strong experience with data warehouse environments, ETL, and SQL
• Proven experience in performance optimization and system tuning
• Experience supporting production systems and resolving incidents
• Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools