Database Reliability Engineer/Database Engineer (Rubrik Security Cloud Platform)

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and scalability of our end-to-end database infrastructure. You will manage both our low-latency transactional engines and our real-time analytical/lakehouse storage systems. You will bridge systems engineering, database internals, and automation to maintain rock-solid data integrity, low query latency, and high availability across the entire data lifecycle.

What you'll do

• Performance & Query Optimization: Diagnose and resolve latency regressions, lock/latch contention, index strategies
• Disaster Recovery & Data Integrity: Ensure strict RTO/RPO adherence, automated backup validation, PITR (point-in-time recovery)
• Storage Optimization & Compaction: Manage compaction policies, partition strategies, file sizing, and storage tiering to minimize storage costs and read amplification
• Transactional Reliability & Operations: Manage HA, automated failover, replication topology, and zero-downtime maintenance for production RDBMS clusters
• Analytical Storage Infrastructure: Maintain, scale, and optimize real-time analytical engines (ClickHouse) and lakehouse formats/engines (Apache Iceberg, BigQuery)

What you need

• SQL
• Python
• PostgreSQL
• Go
• Kafka
• Terraform

Good to have

• BigQuery
• GCP
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Linux