# Database Reliability Engineer

**Company**: Fuse Energy
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

Fuse Energy is a forward-thinking renewable energy startup on a mission to deliver a terawatt of renewable energy - fast.

We're combining first-principles thinking with cutting-edge technology to build a radically better energy system. We raised $210M from top-tier investors including Multicoin, Balderton, Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Lowercarbon, Ribbit, Box Group and strategic angels like Nico Rosberg, the Co-Founder of Solana and GPs behind Meta, Revolut, Spotify, Uber and more.

**Responsibilities**

- Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Fuse's database infrastructure across Postgres and ClickHouse.

- Build and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines to support analytics, reporting, and product needs.

- Own the design and evolution of analytical schemas, translating business logic into structured, intuitive data models.

- Migrate and transform data from Postgres into ClickHouse, ensuring performance and reliability.

- Develop and maintain DBT models that reflect our business domain and make data easily accessible for teams.

- Implement tests and data quality checks to ensure reliable and trustworthy datasets.

- Identify and eliminate duplicates, improve data consistency, and enforce clean modelling standards.

- Manage all database and infrastructure changes through IaC , minimise direct DB modifications.

**Requirements**

- 3+ years of experience in a backend engineering or data-focused engineering role.

- Writes the cleanest SQL you've ever seen , proficiency in Python and SQL is non-negotiable.

- Hands-on experience with relational databases, particularly Postgres.

- Experience designing schemas and building data models that reflect real-world business logic.

- Familiarity with DBT or similar data transformation frameworks.

- Strong understanding of data validation, testing, and quality assurance practices.

- Manages all infrastructure through IaC tooling (Pulumi, AWS CDK) , treats the database as code, not a manual system.

- Grasps new business domains quickly , able to translate unfamiliar logic into clean, intuitive data models without hand-holding.

**Bonus**

- Experience with ClickHouse or columnar databases.

- Familiarity with cloud-based data orchestration tools (Dagster, Step Functions).

- CI/CD practices for data pipelines and transformations.

- Experience operating databases at scale in a production environment.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary and an equity sign-on bonus.

- Biannual bonus scheme.

- Fully expensed tech to match your needs.

- Paid annual leave.

- Breakfast and dinner allowance for office-based employees.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Postgres
- DBT
- IaC

### Nice to have
- ClickHouse
- cloud-based data orchestration tools
- CI/CD practices

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