Database Reliability Engineer - DBRE

Overview

Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) for Cognite’s Cloud deployment team, owning reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence of core database infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Orchestrate and automate a 1000+ PostgreSQL fleet lifecycle across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Automate PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, and backups.
• Operate and scale Elasticsearch clusters across Elastic Cloud and ECK, ensuring performance and reliability.
• Own Kafka cluster reliability and performance for high-throughput, low-latency event streaming.
• Establish best practices for sizing, capacity planning, shard management, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Build monitoring and alerting for consumer lag, broker health, ISR status, and throughput.

What you'll need

• 6+ years of experience in Database Reliability Engineering, Database Engineering, SRE, Platform Engineering, or a related role.
• Hands-on experience operating PostgreSQL at scale, preferably in cloud-managed environments.
• Experience with Elasticsearch cluster administration, performance tuning, scaling, shard management, and troubleshooting.
• Experience operating databases/stateful workloads on Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or similar tools.
• Proficiency scripting/programming in Python, Go, or a similar language.

Details

• Location: India (Bengaluru).