DBRE SME – Database Reliability Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Romania.

📋 Description

• Enhancing the performance, availability, and reliability of production databases.

• Supporting and refining MongoDB and Percona/MySQL environments.

• Assessing and improving replica sets, sharding, replication, and clustering.

• Diagnosing database issues and conducting root cause analysis.

• Designing and validating backup and disaster recovery strategies.

• Developing and enhancing database monitoring, observability, and alerting systems.

• Leading database upgrades, migrations, and optimization initiatives.

• Collaborating closely with DevOps, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure dependable database platforms.

• Producing documentation, runbooks, and sharing best practices with the broader engineering team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in Database Engineering or Database Reliability Engineering.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Percona/MySQL.

• Professional experience in supporting MongoDB (including replica sets, sharding, indexing, and performance optimization).

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL is a plus.

• Strong knowledge of replication, clustering, and high availability.

• Experience with backup and disaster recovery, particularly with Percona XtraBackup.

• Proficiency in using monitoring tools such as Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Solid Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills.

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP database services is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• An opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing company.

• Career advancement options.

• Opportunities for learning and development.

• A flexible working environment.

• Competitive salaries commensurate with experience.