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# Database Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Compare the Market
- **Location:** Peterborough, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Databases, Data Infrastructure, Database Design, Operational Databases, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Data Storage Technologies, Technical Debt, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815124065-database-reliability-engineer

## About the Role

We've carved a meerkat-shaped niche and we're looking for ambitious, curious thinkers who thrive in a fast-moving, high-impact environment. If you love accountability, embrace challenge, and want to make a real difference, you'll fit right in., You'll bring strong experience operating and improving production database or data platform systems, with a proven ability to own services end-to-end and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and operability. You're comfortable making technical decisions, balancing factors such as performance, scalability, security, cost, and long-term sustainability.

You'll have a solid understanding of database design, performance optimisation, and reliability engineering principles, alongside experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident management practices. An understanding of data platforms, data pipelines, and how data supports analytics and business services is also important.

We're looking for someone who combines strong technical expertise with excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills. You'll be comfortable working across engineering and data teams, contributing to platform evolution while continuously developing your own technical capabilities.

## Description

* Design, configure, and operate highly available database and data storage systems that support critical platform and business services
 * Drive reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across database and data platform environments
 * Lead platform improvement initiatives from design through deployment and ongoing production support
 * Monitor, optimise, and automate database operations to improve resilience, availability, and efficiency
 * Identify and address technical debt, capacity constraints, performance bottlenecks, and operational risks across the data platform
 * Support the reliability of data pipelines and services by ensuring underlying storage and database layers are scalable, performant, and well-governed
 * Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities to strengthen platform stability
 * Collaborate with engineers and data specialists to share knowledge, improve standards, and evolve platform capabilities


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