Database Site Reliability Engineer

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At Compare the Market, we’re a purpose-driven business powered by tech and AI.

We’re building high-performing, results-driven teams with the skills, mindset, and ambition to deliver outcomes at pace.

Every role here plays a part in driving our mission forward, and we create an environment where you can bring your authentic self, grow a truly characterful career, and see the direct impact of your work on the lives of our customers.

We’ve carved a meerkat-shaped niche and we’re looking for ambitious, curious thinkers who thrive in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.

If you love accountability, embrace challenge, and want to make a real difference, you’ll fit right in.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design, configure, and operate highly available database and data storage systems that support critical platform and business services
• Drive reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across database and data platform environments
• Lead platform improvement initiatives from design through deployment and ongoing production support
• Monitor, optimise, and automate database operations to improve resilience, availability, and efficiency
• Identify and address technical debt, capacity constraints, performance bottlenecks, and operational risks across the data platform
• Support the reliability of data pipelines and services by ensuring underlying storage and database layers are scalable, performant, and well-governed
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities to strengthen platform stability
• Collaborate with engineers and data specialists to share knowledge, improve standards, and evolve platform capabilities

What we’re looking for:

You’ll bring strong experience operating and improving production database or data platform systems, with a proven ability to own services end-to-end and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and operability.

You’re comfortable making technical decisions, balancing factors such as performance, scalability, security, cost, and long-term sustainability.

You’ll have a solid understanding of database design, performance optimisation, and reliability engineering principles, alongside experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident management practices.