Senior Database Reliability Engineer - Remote

YO AI Labs is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to architect, optimize, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL environments. The role focuses on database reliability, performance, scalability, backup and recovery, troubleshooting, automation, migrations, and technical documentation across cloud-based systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design and manage highly available PostgreSQL architectures using AWS RDS and Aurora
• Optimize queries, indexes, partitioning, and database performance
• Manage backup, replication, recovery, and failover processes
• Troubleshoot slow queries, locks, deadlocks, and database bottlenecks
• Automate database maintenance and reliability workflows
• Support data migrations, application scaling, and operational improvements
• Maintain clear technical documentation

Requirements:

• • PostgreSQL
• • AWS RDS & Aurora PostgreSQL
• • High-Availability Architecture
• • Large-Scale Databases
• • Database Performance Optimization
• • Backup & Disaster Recovery
• • Replication & Failover
• • 5+ years of production PostgreSQL experience
• • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and replication
• • Experience managing large-scale, high-traffic databases
• • Familiarity with Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud-native environments
• • Experience with data platforms, ETL, analytics workloads, and monitoring tools
• • Strong analytical, communication, and troubleshooting skills