This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Database Reliability Engineer based in the United Kingdom.
This role sits at the core of a high-traffic, fast-scaling digital environment serving tens of millions of users each week. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of a modern, cloud-native database ecosystem built from the ground up using cutting-edge technologies. Working within a specialized DBRE and DevOps team, you will help design and evolve highly available data systems that support rapid international expansion. The environment is highly engineering-driven, with strong emphasis on automation, observability, and continuous improvement. You will play a key role in shaping database architecture decisions, improving system resilience, and enabling safe, fast product releases across regions. This is a hands-on, high-impact position for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges at scale.
Accountabilities:
- Design, build, and maintain highly available and scalable database architectures supporting global, multi-region platforms
- Take ownership of production database operations including schema changes, data migrations, deployments, and incident resolution
- Improve performance, reliability, and scalability through tuning, capacity planning, and disaster recovery optimization
- Develop automation tools and internal platforms using Go and/or Python to reduce manual operations and improve system efficiency
- Monitor database health and define alerting strategies based on SLI/SLO frameworks to proactively detect and prevent incidents
- Collaborate closely with development teams to support query optimization, schema design, and troubleshooting
- Implement and maintain robust backup, recovery, replication, and security strategies across relational and NoSQL databases
- Conduct regular security audits and ensure compliance with database security best practices
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience working with large-scale MySQL and MongoDB production environments
- Strong background in Database Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or similar infrastructure-focused roles
- Deep understanding of database internals, performance tuning, high availability, and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with automation and scripting using Golang and/or Python
- Familiarity with cloud database services such as AWS Aurora, DocumentDB, ElastiCache, and related tooling
- Experience implementing SLI/SLO/SLA-based reliability practices and monitoring strategies
- Strong knowledge of backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery methodologies
- Proactive mindset with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for system reliability and scalability
Benefits:
- Competitive salary with quarterly performance-based bonuses
- 28 days of paid annual leave
- Remote-first working model with flexible working hours (core hours 10am–3pm local time)
- High-quality equipment provided for work
- Referral bonuses and additional performance-based incentives
- Annual company retreats for collaboration and networking
- Opportunity to work on modern, cloud-native systems built with cutting-edge technologies
- Strong engineering culture focused on autonomy, ownership, and continuous improvement