About the Role

This Site Reliability Engineer III role is a senior, hands-on position serving as the PostgreSQL subject-matter expert across a modern, cloud-native data platform. You’ll play a critical role in database architecture, performance, reliability, security, and observability, partnering closely with application, security, and platform teams.

You’ll design scalable database solutions, define observability standards, and help evolve a multi-database ecosystem spanning relational and non-relational technologies, while mentoring others and raising the bar for operational excellence.

This is a role for someone who enjoys deep technical ownership, thoughtful systems design, and influencing how teams work at scale.

What You’ll Do

Database Architecture & Reliability

• Architect, implement, and maintain PostgreSQL databases on AWS

• Optimize schemas, indexing, and queries for availability, scalability, and performance

• Write and refactor high-performance PL/pgSQL

• Proactively diagnose performance issues and implement long-term solutions

Observability & Performance

• Design database observability strategies and reusable monitoring patterns

• Build dashboards with real-time visibility into health and performance

• Implement anomaly detection, alerting, and cost/performance tuning

• Recommend best practices for monitoring, tracing, and logging cloud databases

Cloud & Platform Integration

• Leverage AWS services including Aurora Serverless, RDS, EC2, S3, Lambda

• Implement backup, recovery, and monitoring solutions using AWS-native tools

• Recommend storage patterns and policies to optimize cost and reliability

• Ensure alignment with AWS security and operational best practices

Security & IAM

• Implement and manage IAM policies for secure database access

• Partner with security teams on audits, vulnerability remediation, and compliance

• Ensure protection of sensitive and regulated data

Non-Relational & Search Platforms

• Design and optimize DynamoDB tables, partition strategies, and indexes

• Deploy and manage OpenSearch clusters for search and analytics

• Design and maintain DocumentDB instances

• Integrate Redis/Valkey, Kafka, Amazon SQS, and related technologies

Data Integration & Governance

• Support data integration and ETL workflows across platforms

• Promote data governance, quality, and consistency best practices

• Support infrastructure-as-code efforts (Terraform)

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Serve as an escalation point for complex database issues

• Perform root cause analysis and prevent recurrence

• Mentor engineers and DBAs; develop training and documentation

• Collaborate with development teams to improve application performance

About You

Core Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience, including advanced tuning

• Strong AWS experience (RDS, EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB)

• Deep understanding of database design, normalization, indexing

• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, AWS monitoring)

• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, or similar)

• Experience with both relational and non-relational data platforms

• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills

• Authorized to work in the United States

Nice to Have

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Database, or Security)

• Experience refactoring or modernizing legacy systems

• Familiarity with regulated environments (HIPAA, PCI)

• Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery models

• Comfort with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, OpsGenie)

• Exposure to AWS Glue, Neptune, or other purpose-built databases

Benefits

• Remote-first U.S. role with occasional in-person planning sessions

• Entrepreneurial, collaborative team where individuals have real ownership and voice

• Sustained growth with room to expand scope, skills, and career path

• Strong investment in learning & development, including mentoring and training

• Competitive compensation with geographic adjustments

• Well-rounded benefits, including:

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage

  • 401(k) with company match and profit sharing

  • Paid parental leave and family-building benefits

  • Generous PTO starting day one + paid holidays

  • Fully covered life, disability, and employee assistance programs