Database Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Company: Fuse Energy
Location: Washington, DC
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

Fuse Energy is an energy startup on a mission to make energy abundant and affordable, fast. They are hiring a Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Fuse’s data infrastructure across Postgres and ClickHouse in a remote capacity.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Ownership: Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Fuse’s database infrastructure across Postgres and ClickHouse.
• Data Pipelines: Build and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines to support analytics, reporting, and product needs.
• Schema Design: Own the design and evolution of analytical schemas, translating business logic into structured, intuitive data models.
• Migration & Transformation: Migrate and transform data from Postgres into ClickHouse, ensuring performance and reliability.
• DBT Modeling: Develop and maintain DBT models that reflect the business domain and make data easily accessible for teams.
• Data Quality: Implement tests and data quality checks to ensure reliable, trustworthy datasets, identifying duplicates and enforcing clean modeling standards.
• Infrastructure as Code: Manage all database and infrastructure changes through IaC, minimizing direct DB modifications.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Experience: 3+ years in a backend engineering or data-focused engineering role.
• Core Skills: Excellent SQL; proficiency in Python and SQL is non-negotiable.
• Database Expertise: Hands-on experience with relational databases, particularly Postgres.
• Data Modeling: Experience designing schemas and building data models that reflect real-world business logic.
• Frameworks: Familiarity with DBT or similar data transformation frameworks.
• Quality Assurance: Strong understanding of data validation, testing, and quality assurance practices.
• Tooling: Manages all infrastructure through IaC tooling (Pulumi, AWS CDK), treating the database as code.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

• Experience with ClickHouse or columnar databases
• Cloud-based data orchestration (Dagster, Step Functions)
• CI/CD for data pipelines and transformations
• Operating databases at scale in production

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

• Competitive salary and eligibility for equity
• Biannual bonus scheme
• Fully expensed tech to match your needs
• Private health insurance
• Breakfast and dinner allowance for office-based employees (benefits vary by location for global hires)