Senior Database Reliability Engineer

ClickUpEuropeSenior7+ years experienceDatabases

Specialty

Databases

The role

ClickUp is hiring a Senior Database Reliability Engineer for its Database Operations team. You would run the performance, integrity, security and availability of PostgreSQL databases on Linux in AWS, focusing on day-to-day administration.

What you will do

  • Administer and monitor production PostgreSQL databases of 250GB and more on RDS, Aurora and EC2
  • Handle patching, upgrades, vacuuming, reindexing and statistics management
  • Run backup, restore and disaster recovery procedures and test them regularly
  • Manage user access, roles and database security
  • Plan capacity and storage, and troubleshoot bottlenecks, locking and failed jobs
  • Support application teams with query tuning and schema changes, and join on-call rotations

What they ask for

  • 7+ years as a senior database administrator or database engineer
  • Strong PostgreSQL administration, including backups, recovery and performance tuning
  • Understanding of database security, access control and compliance
  • Experience managing large production databases of 250GB or more
  • Strong Linux administration skills
  • SQL plus a scripting language such as Bash or Python
  • Familiarity with AWS database deployments (RDS, Aurora, EC2, S3)

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