Database Reliability Engineer

Available Locations: Austin TX, Washington DC
About the department
The Database Platform Team, a vital part of Cloudflare's Infrastructure Engineering organization, is dedicated to building and operating databases at scale. Our mission is to empower internal engineering teams, enabling them to deliver products quickly and reliably through a robust, automated, and scalable data infrastructure.
We achieve this by automating database infrastructure, strengthening resiliency, and allowing applications to scale effortlessly. This effectively removes the operational complexities of database management, letting product teams concentrate on innovation.
As the Database Platform Team enters an exciting period of growth and expansion, this role offers a key opportunity to develop new features, integrate with database tooling, and advance automation across our platform. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the future of our database platform
What you'll do
The ideal candidate will work alongside database engineers, software developers, and Infrastructure teams, contributing to the evolution of database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies. They will play a critical role in enhancing PostgreSQL infrastructure and improving database reliability, automation, and tooling.
If you are passionate about PostgreSQL, automation, and database tooling, we'd love to hear from you!
Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
• Develop and optimize database schemas, queries, and procedures for performance and scalability.
• Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning.
• Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.
• Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
• Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Experience building large multi-tenant databases, operating, capacity planning, and designing for failover, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
• Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.
• Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
• Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt) .

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.
• Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
• Experience with non-relational data stores such as Distributed & time-series databases (ex. Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (eg., Redis)
• Experience developing software in Go, Python or C/C++

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Washington D.C. based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000.

Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave