Database Reliability Engineer
Starling Bank
Overview
In this role, you will modernize and scale Starling’s data infrastructure, focusing on a robust, multi‑region RDS setup. You’ll enable cross‑cloud deployments and drift toward provider‑agnostic database layers. By boosting observability and reliability, you ensure data health and seamless customer experiences. You will design resilient BC/DR automation and participate in security‑driven, code‑first engineering. This is an opportunity to shape the data platform in a fast‑growing fintech.
Pay / Benefits- 25 days holiday
- Birthday holiday
- Pension scheme
- Life insurance 4x salary
- Private Medical Insurance
- Cycle to Work / EV leasing
- Modernize and scale the RDS fleet with automated upgrade and performance tuning
- Architect cross‑cloud portability for provider‑agnostic deployment across AWS and GCP
- Enhance observability and monitoring of the global database fleet
- Support data replication and zero‑downtime migration strategies
- Fortify business continuity planning and disaster recovery with automation for regional resilience
- PostgreSQL & Kubernetes expert with experience running stateful workloads on Kubernetes
- Systems thinker who believes infrastructure should be code‑driven (Terraform)
- Distributed systems enthusiast with multi‑tenant, multi‑region, multi‑cloud focus
- Security & observability mindset with deep monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry/Humio) and automated guardrails
- Engineering via code with Java for backend services and strong relational data modeling
- collaboration
- curiosity
- problem‑solver
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
- CNPG
Reference: WJ-747_30184286