Senior Data Reliability Engineer

Location: Full remote from Spain

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Data Reliability Engineer to join a high-impact Platform team supporting the data infrastructure behind 400+ microservices running on AWS.

This role combines strong database administration expertise with SRE and automation practices, focusing on reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence.

What you will do

Own and improve highly available database systems in production
Drive performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning
Implement backup, failover, and disaster recovery strategies
Define and monitor SLOs / SLIs for database environments
Support incident response, post-mortems, and reliability improvements
Automate operational tasks through Terraform and scripting
Work closely with engineering teams to improve database performance and reliability

What we are looking for

5+ years of experience in database administration in production environments
Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL
Experience with AWS RDS / Aurora
Solid knowledge of Terraform
Strong SQL skills and experience with performance optimization
Experience with Datadog, monitoring, and observability
Scripting skills in Python or Bash
Fluent English

Nice to have

Experience with MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis
Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, or OpenTelemetry
Familiarity with AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code

Why join

You will join a strong engineering environment where data reliability is critical, with the chance to work on large-scale infrastructure challenges and help shape reliability practices across the organization.