Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Remote · Bulgaria · Ukraine · Hungary · Czechia · 7+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote · Bulgaria · Ukraine · Hungary · Czechia
About the role
- ClickUp is looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Database Operations team.
- You’ll be responsible for the performance, integrity, security, and availability of our PostgreSQL databases running on Linux in AWS.
- This role focuses on day-to-day database administration, operational excellence, and ensuring data is consistently reliable and well-managed across environments.
Responsibilities
- Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL databases (250GB+) in production environments (AWS RDS, Aurora, EC2)
- Ensure database availability, performance, and data integrity through proactive monitoring and maintenance
- Perform routine database administration tasks including patching, upgrades, vacuuming, reindexing, and statistics management
- Execute and manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures, including regular testing of recovery plans
- Handle user access management, roles, and database security to ensure compliance with best practices
- Perform capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting
- Troubleshoot database issues, including performance bottlenecks, locking/contention, and failed jobs
- Support application teams with query tuning, schema changes, and release deployments
- Manage database migrations, upgrades, and change requests with minimal downtime
- Maintain documentation for database configurations, standards, and operational procedures
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in a senior database administrator or Database Engineering role
- Strong hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience, including backups, recovery, and performance tuning
- Solid understanding of database security, access control, and compliance practices
- Experience managing large-scale production databases (250GB+), including maintenance and lifecycle management
- Strong Linux administration skills (processes, disk, memory, networking)
- Experience with monitoring tools and performance diagnostics
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, or similar)
- Familiarity with cloud-based database deployments, preferably AWS (RDS, Aurora, EC2, S3)
- Strong organizational and documentation skills
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with database auditing, compliance, or governance frameworks
- Familiarity with ETL processes, data pipelines, or reporting systems
- Experience with high availability setups, replication, and failover management
- Exposure to other database systems (MySQL, SQL Server, or NoSQL platforms)
- Experience supporting enterprise or highly regulated environments
Skills
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- Linux
- AWS
- AWS RDS
- Bash
- Python
- MySQL
- SQL Server
