Site Reliability Engineer (PostgreSQL)
Job Summary
NetApp is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its growing Instaclustr team in India. Instaclustr is NetApp’s open-source-as-a-service platform, delivering highly reliable, scalable solutions built on technologies such as Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis/Valkey, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, and Cadence. The platform manages the full application lifecycle—from infrastructure provisioning and application deployment to ensuring reliable production operations.
Since its founding in 2013, Instaclustr has grown to support over 300 customers and manage more than 22,000 nodes globally. Site Reliability Engineers play a critical role in maintaining the security, performance, and availability of large-scale, cloud-hosted open-source clusters, while collaborating closely with global customers across industries such as gaming, banking, and logistics.
Job Requirements
Essential Skills
- 4-8 years of PostgreSQL administration experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals: configuration tuning, WAL, autovacuum, MVCC, indexing, and partitioning.
- Hands-on experience with replication (streaming, logical, cascading), failover, and disaster recovery.
- Expertise in pgBackRest, including PITR and troubleshooting restore issues.
- Experience managing critical incidents, database migrations, and architecture reviews
Desired / Additional Skills
- Performance tuning using query logs, system metrics, diagnostic views, and execution plans
- Experience with Patroni or similar HA solutions, including DCS and failover management.
- Strong Linux command-line skills.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication
- ITIL-based support experience preferred
- Solid fundamentals in OS, memory management, and networking
- Team-oriented, process-driven, and proactive
- Programming in Python or Java; Git experience a plus
- Exposure to AWS, Docker, and Ansible is an advantage
Education
- 4 to 8 years of experience is preferred.
- A Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, a Master's Degree, or a PhD; or equivalent experience is required.
- Demonstrated ability to complete multiple, moderately complex technical tasks.
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