Senior Database Reliability Engineer

About the role

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the performance, integrity, security, and availability of its PostgreSQL databases on AWS. You will work closely with application teams to ensure data reliability across production environments while supporting the company’s AI‑native workspace platform.

Key responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL databases (250 GB +) in AWS (RDS, Aurora, EC2).
• Perform routine DBA tasks: patching, upgrades, vacuuming, reindexing, and statistics management.
• Design, execute, and test backup, restore, and disaster‑recovery procedures.
• Manage user access, roles, and security controls to meet compliance standards.
• Conduct capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, locking/contention, and failed jobs.
• Support application teams with query tuning, schema changes, and release deployments.
• Lead database migrations, upgrades, and change requests with minimal downtime.
• Maintain up‑to‑date documentation for configurations, standards, and operational procedures.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and respond to production incidents.

Required profile

• 7+ years of senior‑level experience in PostgreSQL administration or database engineering.
• Strong Linux administration skills (processes, disk, memory, networking).
• Proven experience managing large‑scale production databases (250 GB +) on AWS.

Required skills

• PostgreSQL
• AWS services (RDS, Aurora, EC2, S3)
• Linux
• Bash scripting
• Python
• SQL
• Database backup and recovery
• Performance tuning and diagnostics
• Monitoring tools