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Database Engineer (PostgreSQL SRE)

Apple· AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) / IS&T
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BengaluruINR 0Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Database Engineer focused on PostgreSQL SRE responsibilities for a high-volume, customer-facing environment. Responsible for design, configuration, maintenance, upgrades, availability, performance tuning, security, backups, and disaster recovery for a fleet of Postgres databases deployed across bare metal, AWS, and Kubernetes, with a global team.

Responsibilities

  • Support Postgres databases in a high volume customer facing environment.
  • In-depth understanding of PostgreSQL architecture.
  • Database infrastructure setup, configuration, upgrading/patching, monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Handle day-to-day operations and issues; provide detailed RCAs for outages.
  • In-depth understanding of MVCC and how it's handled in PostgreSQL.
  • Upgrade databases major/minor versions and migrations with near-zero downtime.
  • Experience on HA configuration and strong knowledge of HA and disaster recovery concepts.
  • Hands-on experience in configuring and supporting replication (logical/physical/active-active).
  • Strong experience in optimizing and performance tuning of Postgres including drill-down analysis and awareness of execution plan.
  • Measurement and optimization of system performance; capacity planning and forecast management.
  • Provide database architecture and design solutions.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL security best practice implementations.
  • Implement standard backup methodologies (pg_dump/restore, online backup, incremental backup).
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, tight deadline delivery timeline.
  • Participate in evaluation, design, and development of highly scalable distributed databases.
  • Performance benchmarking via pgbench or other opensource tool.
  • Manage databases deployed in Cloud Infrastructure including AWS/GCP and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Python knowledge

Skills

Required:PostgreSQLReplication (logical/physical/active-active)HA/Disaster RecoveryBackup strategies (pg_dump/restore, online, incremental)Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)Kubernetes (CKA)Python
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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