Staff Database Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Staff Database Reliability Engineer: Shaping the foundation of Database Reliability Engineering at hirify.global, owning database reliability at scale within our cloud-based infrastructure with an accent on RDBMS scalability strategy. Focus on elevating reliability practices and building resilient database platforms.

Location: Remote (USA)

Salary: $183,000 - $225,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides the first and only client experience platform for appointment-based, self-care businesses.

What you will do

• Improve database reliability, performance, and scalability; participate in incident response and drive architectural improvements.
• Partner with engineering teams to design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure distributed systems.
• Build tools, automation, and frameworks that eliminate toil and reduce operational overhead.
• Elevate observability and operational excellence through actionable metrics, alerts, and dashboards.
• Mentor and influence engineers across the organization, fostering a culture where reliability is a shared responsibility.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or backend software engineering, with a strong focus on RDBMS and NoSQL systems.
• Production experience with managed cloud databases such as AWS Aurora/RDS (PostgreSQL).
• Experience delivering reliability outcomes using SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and mature observability practices.
• Strong background in automation, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Python, Go, or similar).
• Experience diagnosing and mitigating production incidents in high-availability systems.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence without authority across engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Elixir, Phoenix, Ruby, or Rails
• Hands-on experience identifying and improving database performance

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote with a monthly work from home stipend.
• Flexible vacation day policy.
• 401(k) match plus dental, medical, vision, and life insurance.
• Family planning resources and specialized support programs.
• Equity participation.
• hirify.global Bucks Learning and Development program.