CloudLinux

database reliability engineer PostgreSQL

In short

Senior remote role owning production reliability for PostgreSQL (HA, Patroni, PgBouncer, backups, PITR, performance) plus support for ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis at CloudLinux's Infrastructure Department. Requires 5+ years of deep hands-on PostgreSQL experience, strong Linux fundamentals, automation with Ansible, and upper-intermediate English. The company builds Linux infrastructure and security products (CloudLinux OS, Imunify, KernelCare, TuxCare ELS) used by hosting providers and enterprises worldwide.

About
CloudLinux develops Linux products and infrastructure and security solutions used by hosting providers, enterprises, and internal service teams worldwide. Its Infrastructure Department runs the platforms behind CloudLinux OS, Imunify, KernelCare, TuxCare ELS, and its engineering systems.
Responsibilities
•Own production PostgreSQL reliability, including HA design, Patroni, PgBouncer, replication, failover, upgrades, vacuum and bloat control, query tuning, locks, indexes, capacity, backups, PITR, and restore validation
•Improve disaster recovery and operational evidence through tested restores, documented recovery paths, measurable RTO/RPO targets, runbooks, and safe maintenance plans
•Support ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis by troubleshooting incidents, reviewing access and data-safety changes, improving monitoring, and learning existing production ClickHouse patterns
•Automate DBA workflows with Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD, scripts, and reproducible runbooks for provisioning, grants, backups, restores, health checks, and ownership metadata
•Help build DBaaS-style self-service capabilities for database, access, credential, and operational-check requests with less manual DBA intervention
•Improve observability and incident response through Grafana, metrics, logs, SLOs, alert rules, Opsgenie routing, and clear communication during production issues
Requirements
•Deep hands-on PostgreSQL experience in business-critical production environments, typically 5+ years or equivalent depth
•Understand PostgreSQL internals and operations, including MVCC, WAL, transactions, locks, indexes, query planning, replication, autovacuum, bloat, major upgrades, backups, PITR, and restore testing
•Proven experience with highly available databases and ability to reason about quorum, split-brain risk, failover, rollback, and recovery
•Experience with MongoDB replica sets and Percona Backup for MongoDB
•Strong Linux and infrastructure fundamentals, including systemd, networking, storage, filesystems, CPU/memory/disk bottlenecks, TLS, DNS, firewalls, and root-cause troubleshooting
•Automation skills with Ansible and scripting
•Ability to support multiple database engines and learn ClickHouse quickly
•Use AI engineering assistants such as Claude and Codex, and personally verify generated SQL, commands, scripts, and operational conclusions
•Upper-intermediate English or higher
Nice to have
•Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD, merge-request based delivery, ClickHouse operations, Redis/Sentinel, broker/cache failure modes, database observability, SLOs, golden signals, alert tuning, executable incident runbooks, internal platforms, self-service portals, and DBaaS workflows
Conditions
•Flexible working hours
•24 paid vacation days per year, 10 national holidays, and unlimited sick leave
•Compensation for private medical insurance
•Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement
•Education budget
•Opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea the company can patent

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