Storyblok - Senior Database Reliability Engineer I

• 7+ years in database engineering, database reliability, infrastructure, or SRE roles, including significant hands-on ownership of production PostgreSQL. • Deep PostgreSQL expertise: internals and MVCC, reading and acting on 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 track record of zero-downtime upgrades and complex schema migrations on large, busy tables. • Hands-on experience with physical and logical replication, partitioning, read scaling, and designing and validating backup and disaster-recovery strategies. • Required — Infrastructure and ways of working • Solid experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, primarily Terraform, on AWS. • Strong Linux fundamentals plus fluency in at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, Ruby, or Go) for automation and tooling. • Experience with monitoring and observability tooling, and a solid grasp of security practices (IAM, secrets management, network segmentation). • Experience with change, incident, and problem management in production, and with Git and modern CI/CD workflows applied to database changes. • Strong written and verbal communication in a remote-first organization, including the ability to explain database trade-offs to backend engineers and non-specialists. • 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 (Ruby on Rails preferred; Python, Rust, or Elixir valued). • Experience with caching layers (Redis, Memcached) and their interaction with database load. • Exposure to analytics pipelines and warehousing (Redshift, Snowflake, ClickHouse) or CDC-based data flows. • Experience with container platforms (ECS, EKS, Fargate), NoSQL or vector databases, or AWS certification (Database – Specialty, DevOps Engineer – Professional). • MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS • Remote (home) work opportunity or funded by Storyblok co-working space • GENERAL TERMS • Storyblok has a commitment to diversity and inclusion. We strive to create a hiring environment in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued, irrespective of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, religion, citizenship or any other characteristic. You can find more information about our privacy policy here. • All communications regarding job opportunities at Storyblok will come from an official Storyblok employee with an email address ending in @storyblok.com. We will never redirect you to another portal or another site that is unrelated to our domain (storyblok.com). • Here is a sneak peek of Storyblok’s Visual Editor • If you need an accommodation for any part of the application process, please email [email protected]