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# Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

- **Company:** TCS - Tata Consultancy Services
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data as a Services, Data Integrity, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Migration, Data Systems, Relational Databases, Linux, Distributed Data Store, Memory Management, Elasticsearch, Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Network Layer, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Operational Databases, Performance Tuning, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Ruby, Service Discovery, Scripting, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Vertica, Puppet, Terraform, Stream Processing, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/senior-database-reliability-engineer-dbre-san-jose-ca-usa-58862708

## About the Role

environments * Participate in production operations: on-call rotation, incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-incident reviews Tasks * 5+ years of experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production environments with cloud infrastructure and managed data services (including PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, Amazon RDS, AWS, Terraform, service discovery, and secrets management) * 5+ years of experience managing production databases or distributed data systems across application, database, OS, storage, and network layers * 3+ years of Linux systems engineering (performance tuning, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking) and automating infrastructure or database operations with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet * 2+ years of experience in scripting/programming languages (Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, or Perl) for automation * Experience in a polyglot production data environment including non-PostgreSQL systems (Kafka/MSK, ClickHouse, Redis, a
aaav_ Cassandra, Elasticsearch) Key requirements *

## Description

Experteer Overview In this role you will help make Meraki's database and data systems reliable, scalable, secure, and operable. You will blend database engineering, reliability engineering, and platform automation to support relational databases, streaming systems, analytical stores, and low-latency data services. Collaborating with SRE, application engineering, security, and infrastructure teams, you will boost availability, reduce toil, and guide safe architectural changes as the platform grows. This is a hands-on role with a strong impact on data reliability at scale. Compensation / Benefits * Plan, administer, and secure PostgreSQL infrastructure in collaboration with SRE teams to ensure high performance and reliability * Design, build, and maintain ETL pipelines for PostgreSQL and develop data migration procedures * Perform operational database administration tasks: installation, upgrades, patching, backup/recovery, monitoring, capacity planning, and architectural changes in cloud environments * Participate in production operations: on-call rotation, incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-incident reviews Tasks * 5+ years of experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production environments with cloud infrastructure and managed data services (including PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, Amazon RDS, AWS, Terraform, service discovery, and secrets management) * 5+ years of experience managing production databases or distributed data systems across application, database, OS, storage, and network layers * 3+ years of Linux systems engineering (performance tuning, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking) and automating infrastructure or database operations with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet * 2+ years of experience in scripting/programming languages (Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, or Perl) for automation * Experience in a polyglot production data environment including non-PostgreSQL systems (Kafka/MSK, ClickHouse, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch) Key requirements *


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