Database Reliability Engineer

• Join the Database Platform Team to build and operate databases at scale, empowering internal engineering teams to deliver products quickly and reliably. • Contribute to the evolution of database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies. • Play a critical role in enhancing PostgreSQL infrastructure and improving database reliability, automation, and tooling.

• Have experience building large multi-tenant databases, operating, capacity planning, and designing for failover, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. • Have experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring. • Have experience optimising database performance and query tuning. • Have experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana. • Have experience in scripting languages such as Python and Bash for automation. • Have experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Salt.

• Have expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase, or Goose. • Have experience with containerisation technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. • Have contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects. • Have experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer and HAProxy. • Have experience with non-relational data stores such as Cassandra, Timescale, and Redis. • Have experience developing software in Go, Python, or C/C++.

• Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL databases in production environments. • Develop and optimise database schemas, queries, and procedures for performance and scalability. • Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring, and performance tuning. • Optimise database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning. • Implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions. • Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools. • Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.

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• Join one of the world largest networks powering millions of websites and Internet properties. • Work at a company named to Entrepreneur Magazine Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. • Contribute to meaningful projects like Project Galileo and Athenian Project.

Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet. The Database Platform Team is a vital part of the Infrastructure Engineering organisation, dedicated to building and operating databases at scale. The team automates database infrastructure, strengthens resiliency, and allows applications to scale effortlessly.