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Stream

Staff Database Reliability Engineer

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Roles

Staff Database Reliability Engineer

Compensation

Generous compensation + Company equity

Tech stack

Multiversion Concurrency Control Sharding CloudNativePG MVCC Postgres Logical Replication Kubernetes Yugabyte Go AWS CockroachDB Redis Autovacuum Kubeblocks AWS RDS

Required

PostgreSQLMultiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC)AutovacuumKubernetesSharding

Nice to have

CloudNativePGKubeblocksLogical ReplicationCockroachDBYugabyte

Location

Amsterdam or Remote (Europe)

Work setup

Employment
full-time
Level
Senior
Remote policy
Amsterdam or Remote (Europe)
Remote scope
region-limited
Visa
Visa Sponsorship

Role details

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end PostgreSQL operations for high-write, high-concurrency production systems including query plans, vacuum and bloat, replication, backup, HA, and sharding
  • Work with application teams on access patterns
  • Migrate from AWS RDS to self-hosted Postgres on Kubernetes
  • Diagnose and resolve performance issues from query to storage engine level, including indexing, query planning, vacuum and bloat management, and tuning under sustained write load.
  • Own the operational aspects of the Postgres fleet, including backup, replication, and high availability for self-managed systems.
  • Work on sharding, partitioning, and architectural decisions to scale the data layer as data and traffic grow.
  • Set standards for running Postgres and collaborate with application engineers on database behavior and access patterns.
  • Shape the long-term direction of the company's data infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Deep PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, the query planner, autovacuum)
  • Real sharding experience beyond table partitioning
  • Self-managed databases in production
  • Engineering depth to work directly with application teams on access patterns
  • Deep PostgreSQL expertise, including internals like MVCC, vacuum and bloat, query planner, indexing, and replication.
  • Production ownership of PostgreSQL at scale, with experience managing high-traffic services, large datasets, and high write throughput.
  • Experience operating self-managed PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, bare-metal, or VMs, including backup, replication, and high availability.
  • Experience sharding a real PostgreSQL workload.
  • Ability to read and write code, and connect database behavior to application access patterns.
  • Proficiency in using AI tooling effectively and critically evaluating its output.

Application

Apply via the provided link: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stream/44056edb-2489-4187-97ff-afe04c36929c?utm_source=5rrpvObp3r

Portfolio
not required
GitHub
not required
Cover letter
unclear
Apply flow
ats

Company context

Product
High-write, high-concurrency APIs for serving billions of requests a month backed by PostgreSQL databases
Industry
unclear
Size
50+ engineers

Description

Stream runs 35–40 PostgreSQL databases (largest: 15TB) behind high-write, high-concurrency APIs serving billions of requests a month. We’re migrating from AWS RDS to self-hosted Postgres on Kubernetes and need someone who has owned this end-to-end: query plans, vacuum and bloat, replication, backup, HA, sharding. Required: deep Postgres internals (MVCC, the query planner, autovacuum), real sharding experience beyond table partitioning, self-managed databases in production, and enough engineering depth to work directly with application teams on access patterns. Explicit non-goals: RDS/Aurora-only backgrounds, analytics/data-warehouse experience, or DBAs who don’t code. Strong plus: CloudNativePG, Kubeblocks, logical replication, CockroachDB experience. Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stream/44056edb-2489-4187-97ff-afe04c36929c?utm_source=5rrpvObp3r

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