Software Engineer (DevOps) - Database Reliability
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About the Role
Revolut seeks a DevOps Engineer with database expertise to join the Site Reliability team. You will develop self-service database tools, build automation for provisioning and scaling, and lead incident response for production database issues.
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Responsibilities
- Develop self service database tools used by over 1k+ engineers
- Build and optimize automation for database provisioning, scaling, and maintenance
- Lead and support incident response for production database issues
- Deliver scalable, user friendly platforms for provisioning and configuration management (IaC)
- Monitor and optimize resource costs to ensure efficient use
- Implement out of the box observability solutions for proactive system monitoring
- Ensure compliance with industry standards through automated processes
Requirements
- Experience managing highly available PostgreSQL clusters on bare metal or cloud outside managed services
- Operational experience with PostgreSQL lifecycle tasks (version upgrades, backup/restore, replication, DR)
- Deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals (query planning, indexing, vacuuming, performance tuning, partitioning)
- Monitoring and observability experience with PostgreSQL
- Knowledge of database security (TLS, roles, auditing, encryption)
- Experience troubleshooting live production issues (performance degradation, lock contention, replication lag, node failures)
- Experience with cloud providers (GCP and AWS)
- Experience with distributed systems (scaling, fault tolerance, load balancing, networking, security)
Full Job Posting
About the Role
- We're looking for a DevOps Engineer with database expertise to join our Site Reliability team.
- You will drive automation and tooling to manage, scale, and maintain our databases.
What You'll Be Doing
- Developing self service database tools used by over 1k+ engineers.
- Building and optimising automation for database provisioning, scaling, and maintenance.
- Leading and supporting incident response for production database issues.
- Delivering scalable, user friendly platforms for provisioning and configuration management (IaC).
- Monitoring and optimising resource costs to ensure efficient use.
- Implementing out of the box observability solutions for proactive system monitoring.
- Ensuring compliance with industry standards through automated processes.
What You'll Need
- Experience managing highly available PostgreSQL clusters on bare metal or cloud outside managed services.
- Operational experience with PostgreSQL lifecycle tasks (version upgrades, backup/restore, replication, DR).
- Deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals (query planning, indexing, vacuuming, performance tuning, partitioning).
- Monitoring and observability experience with PostgreSQL.
- Knowledge of database security (TLS, roles, auditing, encryption at rest/in transit).
- Comfortable troubleshooting live production issues (performance degradation, lock contention, replication lag, node failures).
- Experience with cloud providers (GCP and AWS).
- Experience with distributed systems (scaling, fault tolerance, load balancing, networking, security).
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