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Senior PostgreSQL Database Reliability Engineer

Storyblok • Germany
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Own the reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of the PostgreSQL data platform (primarily Amazon Aurora) behind Storyblok's flagship CMS. Work as a full member of the Infrastructure team on Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and security tooling, and share the on-call rotation. Requires 7+ years in database engineering, database reliability, infrastructure, or SRE roles, plus strong PostgreSQL depth and remote-first communication skills.

Key Highlights
Own reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of PostgreSQL platform (primarily Amazon Aurora)
Lead zero-downtime version upgrades and schema migrations at scale
Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for database systems
Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and postmortems
Raise database competence across the wider engineering organization
Key Responsibilities
Own reliability, performance, and scalability of PostgreSQL platform (primarily Amazon Aurora)
Lead zero-downtime version upgrades and schema migrations at scale
Own operational health: vacuum strategy, bloat, connection management, logical replication
Review schema changes and DDL from backend teams
Own backup, restore, and disaster recovery end-to-end
Model database capacity and cost
Deliver infrastructure and automation using Terraform on AWS
Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability
Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and postmortems
Raise database competence through design reviews, documentation, and mentoring
Technical Skills Required
PostgreSQL AWS Terraform
Benefits & Perks
Monthly remote work stipend
Home office equipment package
Home office equipment upgrade or co-working membership
Sick leave benefit
Parental leave
25 days annual leave plus local national holidays
Personal development fund
Annual international team-building trip
Quarterly and monthly online get-togethers
Flexible schedules
Nice to Have
Familiarity with backend frameworks interacting with PostgreSQL (Ruby on Rails preferred; Python, Rust, or Elixir valued)
Experience with caching layers (Redis, Memcached)
Exposure to analytics pipelines and warehousing (Redshift, Snowflake, ClickHouse) or CDC-based data flows
Experience with container platforms (ECS, EKS, Fargate), NoSQL or vector databases, or AWS certification

Job Description

Storyblok is a headless CMS that enables marketers and developers to create with joy and publish with confidence. It empowers you to deliver structured and consistent content everywhere: websites, apps, AI search, and beyond. Legendary brands like Virgin Media O2, Oatly, and TomTom use Storyblok to make a bigger, faster market impact.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU

You will be joining a growing company where you can contribute to many "firsts". Plus these benefits:

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