Staff Database Reliability Engineer - Remote & Equity

Assured; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Healthcare plan (Platinum)

Unlimited PTO

3% 401(k) contribution

Life insurance & disability

Job summary

Assured is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Database) to scale our PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora workloads for a fast-growing SaaS platform. You’ll own the database infrastructure, design robust monitoring, and build automation to ensure reliability at scale.

You will work closely with software teams, evolve our reliability culture, and expand to broader SRE responsibilities as we grow, with remote-friendly and collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or DB administration roles.
• Deep PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora expertise with production scale.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js.
• Strong background in highly available, scalable database design.
• Proven ability to optimize database performance and enforce best practices.

Responsibilities

• Scale and optimize database infrastructure for PostgreSQL and Aurora.
• Design monitoring, tuning, and scaling strategies for the SaaS platform.
• Build automation and tooling for consistent database management.
• Drive initiatives to improve system health and uptime.
• Evolve into broader SRE responsibilities across infra and reliability culture.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Database Administration

PostgreSQL

Amazon Aurora

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

High Availability

Performance Tuning

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Prisma

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Redshift

Job description

Assured is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Database) to scale our PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora workloads for a fast-growing SaaS platform. You’ll own the database infrastructure, design robust monitoring, and build automation to ensure reliability at scale.

You will work closely with software teams, evolve our reliability culture, and expand to broader SRE responsibilities as we grow, with remote-friendly and collaborative environment.