# Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

**Company**: Huntress
**Location**: United States of America
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $215,000 to $245,000 base plus bonus and equity
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/huntress/jobs/8040554003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

### Job Summary

As a Staff Database Reliability Engineer at Huntress, you will be joining a high-performing team responsible for proactively building, monitoring, and implementing the databases that are a core part of the Huntress Security Platform and supporting our millions of installed endpoint agents.

### Responsibilities

- Continuously review and fine-tune critical PostgreSQL configuration parameters to maximize resource utilization and match the current workload profile.

- Forecast future resource needs based on application growth and agent usage trends, and propose scaling solutions.

- Design, implement, and manage comprehensive monitoring dashboards and alerting systems to track key performance indicators (KPIs) like latency, throughput, connection count, and cache hit ratio.

- Design, implement, and maintain optimal indexing strategies to support application requirements, and systematically identify and remove redundant or underutilized indexes that degrade write performance.

- Implement and manage advanced scaling techniques such as database partitioning for large tables and, where necessary, coordinate efforts for database sharding.

- Partner with SRE team to optimize PostgreSQL deployments in Azure, ensuring efficient use of cloud-specific storage and networking.

- Provide technical guidance to application teams on their query/schema/index designs.

### Requirements

- 5+ years experience with scaling, configuration, maintenance and management of PostgreSQL clusters in production environments.

- Expertise in designing, implementing, and supporting replication, failover mechanisms, and robust backup/recovery strategies.

- Deep understanding of PostgreSQL's core architecture, including the WAL, transaction management, locking mechanisms, and the role of background processes like autovacuum.

- Extensive hands-on experience managing and maintaining large-scale PostgreSQL databases in a live, 24/7 production environment.

- Experience with observability tools like DataDog, NewRelic, etc.

- Deep experience of tuning critical performance parameters.

### Nice to Have

- Understanding of NoSQL data models to optimize for specific access patterns.

- Understanding of when to use an RDB and when not to.

- Experience with IaC (infrastructure as code).

### Benefits

- 100% remote work environment.

- Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays.

- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

- Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans.

- 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution.

- Life and Disability insurance plans.

- Stock options for all full-time employees.

- One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office.

- Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance.

- $75 USD/month digital reimbursement.

- Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth.

## Skills

### Required
- PostgreSQL
- database scaling
- configuration
- maintenance
- management
- replication
- failover mechanisms
- backup/recovery strategies
- observability tools

### Nice to have
- NoSQL data models
- IaC (infrastructure as code)

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