Software Engineer (DevOps) - Database Reliability

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 70+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth,‌ 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

• Experience managing highly available PostgreSQL clusters on bare metal or cloud outside managed services
• Operational experience with PostgreSQL lifecycle tasks, including version upgrades, backup and restore workflows, replication configuration, and DR strategy implementation
• A deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals, including query planning, indexing strategies, vacuuming, performance tuning, and partitioning
• Monitoring and observability experience with PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of database security, including TLS setup, roles, auditing, and encryption at rest/in transit
• To be comfortable troubleshooting live production issues, including performance degradation, lock contention, replication lag, or node failures
• Experience with cloud providers, such as GCP and AWS
• Experience with distributed systems, including scaling, fault-tolerance, load-balancing, networking, and security

Nice to have:

• Experience using Consul for highly available database clusters
• Experience monitoring solutions, such as NewRelic, StackDriver, and Prometheus
• Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault
• Experience as a backend developer
• Knowledge of Java and Python database drivers
• Experience with continuous delivery using Kubernetes

• Developing self-service database tools used by over 1k+ engineers
• Building and optimising automation for database provisioning, scaling, and maintenance
• Leading and supporting incident response for production database issues, ensuring reliability and fast recovery
• Delivering scalable, user-friendly platforms for provisioning and configuration management (IaC) across our product teams
• Monitoring and optimising resource costs to ensure efficient use and minimise waste
• Implementing out-of-the-box observability solutions for proactive system monitoring
• Ensuring compliance with industry standards through automated processes and continuous checks