Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety.

Requirements

• Administer, monitor, and optimize relational databases (PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS) for performance, availability, and security.
• Troubleshoot complex database and infrastructure issues, including query performance, replication, schema evolution, and event streaming pipelines.
• Maintain and support Kafka infrastructure for company-wide streaming pipelines and integration with databases.
• Implement backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies for databases and streaming platforms.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Data Engineering teams to maintain CI/CD pipelines for schema, data, and infrastructure changes.
• Enforce database and infrastructure best practices, standards, and security policies.
• Proactively monitor health and performance of databases, streaming pipelines, and cloud infrastructure using Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) for database, Kafka, and cloud infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Support internal teams during incidents or urgent troubleshooting, balancing reliability with rapid deployment needs.

Benefits

• Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
• Paid parental leave
• Alternating day off (every other Monday)
• Off the Grid”, a two week per year paid break for all employees.
• Commuter allowance
• Company-paid training