Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Postgres
UNITED STATES
October 20, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: NinjaOne
Location: Florida, United States (Remote / Hybrid)
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $160,000 to $210,000 per year (depending on location like CA, CO, NJ, NY, WA)

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer who thinks like a data engineer, not just a DBA — someone who treats data as a platform, not a collection of instances to keep patched. You’ll own the reliability, performance, and architecture of our database estate across multiple technologies, and you’ll be a standing voice in architectural and product decisions about how data is stored, moved, and consumed across the organization.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Architectural Ownership: Own architectural and lifecycle decisions for the data domain — technology selection, deprecation, capacity planning, and long-term platform direction as a standing collaborator with Architecture.
  • Platform Design & Operation: Design, operate, and evolve database platforms across multiple technologies, including relational, time-series stores, and data warehouse systems.
  • Engineering Collaboration: Partner with Architecture and Engineering on product and feature decisions that touch data — schema design, access patterns, and scalability tradeoffs early in the design process.
  • Developer Experience: Debug and resolve environment and developer-experience issues across database tooling, provisioning, and local/CI data infrastructure to reduce friction for engineering teams.
  • Health & Performance: Maintain overall health of database environments including performance, availability, disaster recovery, backup/retention, and security controls.
  • Optimization: Optimize performance, indexing, query plans, and storage/compute configuration across heterogeneous data stores.
  • Automation & CI/CD: Automate provisioning, backup, and lifecycle management; integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Migrations & Compliance: Lead migrations, version upgrades, and technology transitions, while maintaining audit logs, schema versioning, and change tracking for regulatory traceability (SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA).

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 8+ years in database engineering/administration, including 3+ years operating more than one database technology in production.
  • Demonstrated experience influencing architecture or product decisions involving data.
  • Deep expertise in at least one relational engine (PostgreSQL preferred) plus working fluency in NoSQL caching.
  • Experience with time-series data stores and data warehouse platforms (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar).
  • Strong cloud-native experience (AWS preferred) — RDS/Aurora, managed NoSQL, IAM, encryption, networking for data services.
  • Proficiency in scripting/automation and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
  • Track record of debugging developer-facing environment issues and strong troubleshooting using logs, metrics, and query analysis.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications

  • Experience with containerized/orchestrated database deployments (Kubernetes, Fargate).
  • Cross-cloud data platform experience (GCP, Azure).
  • Exposure to distributed systems and data partitioning strategies at scale.
  • Prior role explicitly scoped as “data platform engineer,” “database reliability engineer,” or similar hybrid title.
  • Experience building or maintaining internal developer tooling/self-service around data infrastructure.

Benefits & Perks

  • Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) to support work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for growth and advancement.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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