# Database Reliability Engineer

**Company**: Starling
**Location**: Cardiff, Wales
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking. We're looking for a Database Reliability Engineer to join our team.

As a Database Reliability Engineer, you will modernize and scale our RDS fleet, evolve observability and monitoring, fortify business continuity planning, architect cross-cloud portability, and build Java-driven applications.

Responsibilities:

- Modernize and Scale the RDS Fleet: Ensure the reliability of our existing RDS footprint using Terraform to maintain the databases and automate strategies for performance tuning

- Evolve Observability & Monitoring: Build deep, proactive monitoring and alerting for our global database fleet using Java-based data collection pipelines and metrics platforms

- Fortify Business Continuity (BCP): Design and implement rigorous Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery strategies

- Architect Cross-Cloud Portability: Use CNPG and cloud-native patterns to ensure our database layer remains provider-agnostic

- Build Java-Driven Applications: Enhance production-grade Java microservices to orchestrate database monitoring, automated failover, and replication workflows

Requirements:

- PostgreSQL Experience: Hands-on experience working with Postgres databases

- Systems Thinker: Believe infrastructure and database orchestration should be driven programmatically via Terraform and custom Java automation

- Distributed Systems Enthusiast: Excited by the challenge of multi-everything,multi-tenant and multi-region data platforms

- A Security & Observability Mindset: Focus on building deep observability and automated security guardrails directly into your Java services

Benefits:

- 25 days holiday plus take your public holiday allowance

- An extra day's holiday for your birthday

- Annual leave is increased with length of service

- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year

- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme

- Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection

- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth

- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks

## Skills

### Required
- PostgreSQL
- Terraform
- Java
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Dash0
- Sentry
- Humio
- CNPG

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