Senior Database Reliability Engineer (Dbre)

TL;DR

Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE): Maintaining critical database services reliable, automating repeated work, and supporting engineering teams with an accent on PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis operations. Focus on HA design, disaster recovery, and building DBaaS-style self-service capabilities.

Location: Remote

Salary: 5 000 —‍ 10 000 $ / month gross

Company

CloudLinux / TuxCare is a remote-first infrastructure and security company.

What you will do

• Own production PostgreSQL reliability, including HA design, replication, failover, upgrades, and backups.
• Improve disaster recovery and operational evidence through tested restores and documented recovery paths.
• Support the wider database estate, including ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis, by troubleshooting incidents and improving monitoring.
• Automate DBA workflows with Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, and GitLab CI/CD.
• Help build DBaaS-style self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Improve observability and incident response through Grafana, metrics, logs, and alert rules.

Requirements

• Deep hands-on PostgreSQL experience in business-critical production environments (5+ years).
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals and operations.
• Proven experience with highly available databases and the ability to reason about quorum, split-brain risk, failover, rollback, and recovery.
• Strong Linux and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Automation skills with Ansible and scripting; Terraform/OpenTofu and GitLab CI/CD are strong advantages.
• Ability to support more than one database engine and ready to learn ClickHouse quickly.
• Practical use of AI engineering assistants such as Claude and Codex.
• English - upper-intermediate or higher - to ensure clear communication of progress within the teams.

Nice to have

• ClickHouse operations: replication, Keeper/ZooKeeper, MergeTree engines, distributed DDL, grants, row policies, backups, query troubleshooting, and cluster recovery.
• MongoDB replica sets and Percona Backup for MongoDB.
• Redis/Sentinel and broker/cache failure modes.
• Database observability, SLOs, golden signals, alert tuning, and executable incident runbooks.
• Building internal platforms, self-service portals, or DBaaS workflows for engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• A focus on professional development with interesting and challenging projects.
• Fully remote work with flexible working hours, allowing you to work from any location worldwide.
• Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves.
• Compensation for private medical insurance.
• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
• Budget for education.