Software Engineer DevOps - Database Reliability
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About the Role
Revolut is looking for a DevOps Engineer with database expertise to join the Site Reliability team. You will develop self-service database tools, automate provisioning and scaling, and ensure reliability of production databases.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Develop self service database tools used by over 1,000 engineers
- Build and optimise 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 optimise 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
- 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)
- Comfortable troubleshooting live production issues (performance, lock contention, replication lag, node failures)
- Experience with cloud providers (GCP, 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.
- Drive automation and tooling to manage, scale, and maintain our databases.
What You'll Be Doing
- Developing self service database tools used by over 1,000 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 including version upgrades, backup/restore, replication, DR.
- Deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals including query planning, indexing, vacuuming, performance tuning, partitioning.
- Monitoring and observability experience with PostgreSQL.
- Knowledge of database security including TLS, roles, auditing, encryption.
- Comfortable troubleshooting live production issues including performance, lock contention, replication lag, node failures.
- Experience with cloud providers such as GCP and AWS.
- Experience with distributed systems including scaling, fault tolerance, load balancing, networking, security.
Nice to have
- Experience using Consul for highly available database clusters.
- Experience with monitoring solutions such as NewRelic, StackDriver, Prometheus.
- Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault.
- Experience as a backend developer.
- Knowledge of Java and Python database drivers.
- Experience with continuous delivery using Kubernetes.
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