Senior Site Reliability Engineering - Database Operations
Skills
Location
We sponsors visa and relocation pack
Languages
Fluent English
Job Description
We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a dynamic Database Platform Team within the Platform Engineering Domain.
🎯 Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement platform solutions to improve the reliability, security, and scalability of database platform infrastructure.
- Provide technical leadership in cloud infrastructure, networking, CI/CD, and security for operational data storage solutions.
- Collaborate with Product Teams to ensure seamless database provisioning and operational efficiency.
- Mentor and coach team members to foster a culture of knowledge sharing, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to the team's strategy, roadmap, and architectural decisions.
- Lead and participate in incident management and troubleshooting to ensure stability and predictability.
- Define, implement, and maintain observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing) to meet platform availability targets.
🛠️ Requirements
- Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure, particularly in AWS.
- Expertise in operational data storage solutions such as PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, S3, or similar.
- Experience with container technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
- Strong skills in infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools).
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Python.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or similar).
- Familiarity with networking and security best practices in cloud environments.
- Working knowledge of observability tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
➕ Nice to have
- Experience managing large-scale operational storage solutions in production systems.
- In-depth knowledge of database internals, including performance tuning, high-availability architectures (replication/failover), backup and recovery strategies, and sharding/clustering.
🌟 Key Traits
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Ability to mentor engineers and work effectively across teams.
- Strong sense of ownership and proactive approach to problem-solving and process improvement.
- Passion for building high-quality, scalable, and secure infrastructure.
- Eagerness to learn and contribute to platform development as products.
🤗 We offer
- Opportunities for accelerated career growth within a rapidly evolving environment.
- Competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, and discounts for fitness & wellness memberships, language apps, and public transportation.
- Team collaboration days in the office each week, with flexible remote options the rest of the time.
- Premium access to personal and family bank account subscriptions.
- Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
- High degree of autonomy and access to cutting-edge technologies.
- Relocation package and visa support if required.
Benefits and perks
- +Get Stuff Done Days
- +Career development
- +Personalized Onboarding
Location
Carrer de l'Escar, 26, 08039 Barcelona, Spain
