{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"325d236fca4c6ea3b91c1715","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/325d236fca4c6ea3b91c1715","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/325d236fca4c6ea3b91c1715","title":"Senior Database Reliability Engineer","description":"Database Reliability EngineerGridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware's advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors.\r\nWe are seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to own and maintain Gridware's relational databases, cloud infrastructure, and streaming platforms. This role combines traditional DBA responsibilities ensuring high availability, performance, data integrity and security of databases with infrastructure ownership, including setup and management of Kafka-based streaming pipelines, DevOps automation, and cloud platform management.\r\nYou will work closely with Data Engineering, Site Reliability, and DevOps teams to proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize all critical infrastructure, enabling rapid deployment of new features while ensuring reliability and data integrity.\r\nResponsibilities:\r\nAdminister, monitor, and optimize relational databases (PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS) for performance, availability, and security.\r\nTroubleshoot complex database and infrastructure issues, including query performance, replication, schema evolution, and event streaming pipelines.\r\nMaintain and support Kafka infrastructure for company-wide streaming pipelines and integration with databases.\r\nImplement backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies for databases and streaming platforms.\r\nCollaborate with DevOps and Data Engineering teams to maintain CI/CD pipelines for schema, data, and infrastructure changes.\r\nEnforce database and infrastructure best practices, standards, and security policies.\r\nProactively monitor health and performance of databases, streaming pipelines, and cloud infrastructure using Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent.\r\nContribute to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) for database, Kafka, and cloud infrastructure provisioning and management.\r\nSupport internal teams during incidents or urgent troubleshooting, balancing reliability with rapid deployment needs.\r\nRequired Skills:\r\n5+ years of experience managing production relational databases and cloud infrastructure.\r\nHands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS/Aurora, or similar.\r\nProficiency in monitoring and observability for databases, streaming, and cloud infrastructure.\r\nStrong troubleshooting skills for complex, multi-layered production systems.\r\nKnowledge of database and infrastructure security, access control, and compliance best practices.\r\nAbility to collaborate across engineering, DevOps, and Data teams.\r\nBonus Skills:\r\nExperience with analytical or NoSQL databases (Redshift, Snowflake, DynamoDB, MongoDB).\r\nContainerized deployments and Kubernetes-based operators for databases or Kafka.\r\nEvent-driven architecture experience and distributed system troubleshooting.\r\nExperience managing Kafka infrastructure and supporting streaming pipelines.\r\nFamiliarity with DevOps practices, automation, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).\r\n$185,000 - $205,000 a year\r\nAt this time, Gridware is unable to provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this role. We're only able to consider candidates who are currently authorized to work in the country of employment without visa sponsorship now or in the future.\r\nThis describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!\r\nBenefits:\r\nHealth, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)\r\nPaid parental leave\r\nAlternating day off (every other Monday)\r\n\"Off the Grid\", a two week per year paid break for all employees.\r\nCommuter allowance\r\nCompany-paid training","company":"Gridware","rawCompany":"gridware","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-09T07:57:47.660Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1242.00","title":"Database Administrators","slug":"database-administrators"},{"code":"15-1243.00","title":"Database Architects","slug":"database-architects"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"518210","title":"Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services","slug":"computing-infrastructure-providers-data-processing-web-hosting-and-related-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Database Reliability Engineer","description":"Database Reliability EngineerGridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware's advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors.\r\nWe are seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to own and maintain Gridware's relational databases, cloud infrastructure, and streaming platforms. This role combines traditional DBA responsibilities ensuring high availability, performance, data integrity and security of databases with infrastructure ownership, including setup and management of Kafka-based streaming pipelines, DevOps automation, and cloud platform management.\r\nYou will work closely with Data Engineering, Site Reliability, and DevOps teams to proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize all critical infrastructure, enabling rapid deployment of new features while ensuring reliability and data integrity.\r\nResponsibilities:\r\nAdminister, monitor, and optimize relational databases (PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS) for performance, availability, and security.\r\nTroubleshoot complex database and infrastructure issues, including query performance, replication, schema evolution, and event streaming pipelines.\r\nMaintain and support Kafka infrastructure for company-wide streaming pipelines and integration with databases.\r\nImplement backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies for databases and streaming platforms.\r\nCollaborate with DevOps and Data Engineering teams to maintain CI/CD pipelines for schema, data, and infrastructure changes.\r\nEnforce database and infrastructure best practices, standards, and security policies.\r\nProactively monitor health and performance of databases, streaming pipelines, and cloud infrastructure using Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent.\r\nContribute to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) for database, Kafka, and cloud infrastructure provisioning and management.\r\nSupport internal teams during incidents or urgent troubleshooting, balancing reliability with rapid deployment needs.\r\nRequired Skills:\r\n5+ years of experience managing production relational databases and cloud infrastructure.\r\nHands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS/Aurora, or similar.\r\nProficiency in monitoring and observability for databases, streaming, and cloud infrastructure.\r\nStrong troubleshooting skills for complex, multi-layered production systems.\r\nKnowledge of database and infrastructure security, access control, and compliance best practices.\r\nAbility to collaborate across engineering, DevOps, and Data teams.\r\nBonus Skills:\r\nExperience with analytical or NoSQL databases (Redshift, Snowflake, DynamoDB, MongoDB).\r\nContainerized deployments and Kubernetes-based operators for databases or Kafka.\r\nEvent-driven architecture experience and distributed system troubleshooting.\r\nExperience managing Kafka infrastructure and supporting streaming pipelines.\r\nFamiliarity with DevOps practices, automation, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).\r\n$185,000 - $205,000 a year\r\nAt this time, Gridware is unable to provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this role. We're only able to consider candidates who are currently authorized to work in the country of employment without visa sponsorship now or in the future.\r\nThis describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!\r\nBenefits:\r\nHealth, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)\r\nPaid parental leave\r\nAlternating day off (every other Monday)\r\n\"Off the Grid\", a two week per year paid break for all employees.\r\nCommuter allowance\r\nCompany-paid training","datePosted":"2026-04-09T07:57:47.660Z","dateModified":"2026-04-09T07:57:47.660Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Gridware","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"325d236fca4c6ea3b91c1715"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/325d236fca4c6ea3b91c1715"}}