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Storyblok

Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Storyblok

. Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of Storyblok's PostgreSQL data platform, primarily Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL .

Posted 10/13/2026full-timeRemote • Germany, Austria, United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in PostgreSQL database engineering, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability within AWS environments. Proficient in managing complex database migrations, implementing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, and ensuring robust monitoring and disaster recovery strategies.

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PostgreSQL ExpertiseAmazon Aurora PostgreSQLInfrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)Database Migration ManagementMonitoring and Observability Tools

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Hard Skills
Database EngineeringQuery OptimizationConfiguration TuningReplication StrategiesDisaster RecoveryCI/CD WorkflowsLinux FundamentalsBash ScriptingPython ProgrammingIndexing Strategy
Soft Skills
Strong CommunicationMentoringIncident Response
Tools & Technologies
TerraformPrometheusGrafanaDatadogOpenTelemetryAikido
Certifications & Qualifications
AWS Certification
Industry Keywords
Database ReliabilitySRE RolesCloud SecurityIAMChange Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Amazon RedshiftAWSCloudElixirGrafanaLinuxNoSQLPostgresPrometheusPythonRedisRubyRuby on RailsRustTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of Storyblok's PostgreSQL data platform, primarily Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
  • Develop query and index strategies, analyze execution plans, tune configuration, and plan capacity for hot multi-tenant read paths
  • Lead zero-downtime Aurora version upgrades and large-scale schema migrations
  • Manage vacuum strategy, bloat, long-running transactions, wraparound risk, connection pooling, lock contention, logical replication, and replication slot hygiene
  • Review backend schema changes and DDL for lock behavior, migration safety, and performance impact
  • Build guardrails and tooling for safe database changes
  • Own backup, restore, disaster recovery, restore drills, access, encryption, and auditing controls
  • Model database capacity and cost and drive cost efficiency
  • Deliver AWS infrastructure and automation using Terraform and cloud-native tooling
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, including automated handling of database changes
  • Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability using tools such as pg_stat_statements, Prometheus exporters, Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry
  • Use cloud security and vulnerability-management tooling such as Aikido
  • Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, postmortems, root-cause analysis, and remediation
  • Improve organization-wide database expertise through design reviews, documentation, runbooks, and mentoring
  • Leverage AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, and work quality

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years in database engineering, database reliability, infrastructure, or SRE roles, including significant hands-on ownership of production PostgreSQL
  • Deep PostgreSQL expertise, including internals and MVCC, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS), indexing strategy, vacuum behavior, locking, connection pooling, and configuration tuning
  • Strong experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services
  • Proven experience with zero-downtime upgrades and complex schema migrations on large, busy tables
  • Hands-on experience with physical and logical replication, partitioning, read scaling, and backup and disaster-recovery strategies
  • Solid Infrastructure-as-Code experience, primarily Terraform, on AWS
  • Strong Linux fundamentals and fluency in at least one of Bash, Python, Ruby, or Go
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tooling
  • Solid understanding of IAM, secrets management, and network segmentation
  • Experience with change, incident, and problem management in production
  • Experience with Git and modern CI/CD workflows applied to database changes
  • Strong written and verbal communication in a remote-first organization
  • Willingness and ability to participate in an on-call rotation
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Familiarity with backend frameworks that interact with PostgreSQL is nice to have, with Ruby on Rails preferred and Python, Rust, or Elixir valued
  • Experience with Redis or Memcached is nice to have
  • Exposure to Redshift, Snowflake, ClickHouse, or CDC-based data flows is nice to have
  • Experience with ECS, EKS, Fargate, NoSQL or vector databases, or AWS certification is nice to have

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Monthly remote work stipend for home internet costs and electricity
  • Home office equipment package at the start, including laptop, keyboard, and monitor
  • Home office equipment upgrade for furniture and ear plugs, or membership to a local co-working space after onboarding
  • Sick leave benefit
  • Parental leave
  • 25 days of annual leave plus local national holidays
  • Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and materials
  • Annual international team-building trip
  • Quarterly and monthly online get-togethers
  • Flexible schedules
  • Remote home-work opportunity or Storyblok-funded co-working space