Staff Database Reliability Engineer (PostgreSQL)

Location: Remote US

Compensation: $215,000–$245,000 USD annual base salary, plus bonus and equity.

Company

hirify.global is a cybersecurity company founded by former NSA cyber operators that builds enterprise-grade security technology supported by a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center.

What you will do

• Build, monitor, maintain, and scale PostgreSQL databases supporting the hirify.global Security Platform and millions of endpoint agents.
• Continuously tune PostgreSQL configuration parameters and forecast resource needs based on application growth and agent usage.
• Design monitoring dashboards and alerting for latency, throughput, connections, cache hit ratio, and other database KPIs.
• Design indexing strategies, remove redundant or underused indexes, and implement partitioning and database sharding where necessary.
• Partner with SRE engineers to optimize PostgreSQL deployments in Azure, including cloud storage and networking.
• Provide technical guidance to application teams on query, schema, and index design.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience scaling, configuring, maintaining, and managing PostgreSQL clusters in production.
• Expertise in replication, including streaming and logical replication, failover mechanisms, and backup and recovery strategies.
• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL architecture, including WAL, transaction management, locking, and background processes such as autovacuum.
• Extensive hands-on experience managing large-scale, terabyte-level or high-transaction-volume PostgreSQL databases in a live, 24/7 production environment.
• Experience with observability tools such as DataDog or New Relic; any tooling is acceptable.
• Deep experience tuning critical PostgreSQL performance parameters.

Nice to have

• Understanding of NoSQL data models, including MongoDB document schemas, Redis key-value structures, or Cassandra column families, and their access patterns.
• Understanding of when to use a relational database and when not to.
• Experience with infrastructure as code.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work environment.
• Paid vacation, sick time, holidays, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution.
• Stock options for all full-time employees.
• Home-office reimbursement, annual education and professional development allowance, $75 USD monthly digital reimbursement, and access to BetterUp coaching.

Hiring process

• Reasonable accommodation is available for the application, interview, pre-employment testing, and selection process.
• AI tools may assist with application review, resume screening, skills assessment, and candidate matching, while final hiring decisions remain subject to human involvement.