Database Reliability Engineer - DBRE
CogniteIndustrial AI company
Bangalore, IndiaSenior
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About the role
TL;DR
Senior DBRE to own reliability, scalability, and automation of PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
- •Cognite is looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to own the reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence of their core database infrastructure.
- •You will work across PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Kafka on a multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Standardize and automate the lifecycle management of 1000+ PostgreSQL instances across Azure, AWS, and GCP using Infrastructure as Code.
- •Design, operate, and scale high-performance Elasticsearch clusters in Elastic Cloud (SaaS) and ECK (self-managed Kubernetes) environments.
- •Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of Kafka clusters supporting high-throughput, low-latency event streaming.
- •Partner closely with Software Engineering, SRE, Platform Engineering, and Product teams to ensure data platforms are highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient.
- •Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, backups, and operational workflows for database infrastructure.
- •Requirements 6+ years of experience in Database Reliability Engineering, Database Engineering, SRE, or Platform Engineering.
- •Strong hands-on experience operating PostgreSQL at scale, preferably in cloud-managed environments.
- •Strong experience with Elasticsearch, including cluster administration, performance tuning, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- •Experience operating databases and stateful workloads on Kubernetes.
- •Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools.
- •Proficiency in scripting or programming using Python, Go, or a similar language.
Required skills
PostgreSQLElasticsearchKubernetesTerraformPythonGoAWSAzureGoogle Cloud
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Tech stack
PostgreSQLElasticsearchKubernetesAzureAWSGoogle CloudTerraformPythonGo