Database Reliability Engineer

VEG ER for Pets is a company dedicated to improving the emergency care experience for pets and their owners. They are seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to enhance their data systems, ensuring high performance and stability as they expand globally. The role involves architecting a data roadmap and implementing best practices to support the organization’s growth.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze complex database access patterns to identify bottlenecks, then design and implement optimizations in Postgres and Python to ensure high performance as our workload keeps growing
• Architect and execute the roadmap to transition our data layer from startup scale to a global enterprise footprint, supporting our continued hospital expansion
• Build and maintain a world-class observability stack to transform 'surprises' into predictable, automated alerts
• Define and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and database best practices, ensuring that as we scale, our data remains resilient, secure, and highly available

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in DBRE/DBA/SRE/DevOps roles managing high-traffic production databases
• Deep PostgreSQL internal expertise, including a strong understanding of MVCC, indexing strategies, and query optimization
• Proven track record of managing RDS for PostgreSQL across Multi-AZ deployments, with a focus on parameter group tuning and high-concurrency traffic via RDS Proxy
• Designed and executed roadmaps for transitioning from a single primary database to a multi-cluster environment, utilizing read replicas, caching layers, and service-specific data stores
• You have direct experience with technologies relevant to our technical stack, which currently includes: AWS, RDS Proxy, PostgreSQL (RDS), Python