Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
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12-07-2025
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ClickUp is revolutionizing the way the world works. As the only all-in-one productivity platform built from day one for true convergence ClickUp unifies tasks docs chat calendar enterprise search and moresupercharged by context-driven AI. While others scramble to bundle fragmented tools or bolt on AI we anticipated this future and made it our foundation from the start. Headquartered in San Diego with a rapidly expanding global footprint we empower over three million teams to break free from silos and reclaim their timesaving at least one day every week. Join ClickUp one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies on the planet and help millions of users transform the way they work. Were not just building software. Were shaping the future of work. Come join us in building the futuretogether.
As a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) at ClickUp you are a hybrid SRE and DBA. You bring your database expertise from an SRE and infrastructure automation perspective. Your software development expertise will mostly be around automation of database infrastructure (IaC). Your primary responsibility as a DBRE is in keeping the database systems running smoothly ensuring full observability and allowing push-button deployment of the database infrastructure.
If you love unique challenges on database automation management scaling etc. then you will love working this role at ClickUp!
Responsibilities:
- Work on database reliability and performance aspects for ClickUp from within Platform Engineering
- Participate in OnCall support rotation
- Implement best practices for our PostgreSQL database cluster and its components
- Work on observability of relevant database metrics and make sure we reach our database objectives
- Provide database expertise to engineering teams (review of database migrations queries and performance optimizations)
- Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools
- Plan the growth and manage the capacity of ClickUps database infrastructure
- Design build and maintain core database infrastructure pieces that allow ClickUp to scale
- Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack
- Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and SLOs and not on outages
- Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions then into automation
- Perform and run blameless RCAs on incidents and outages relentlessly looking for answers that will prevent the incident from ever happening again.
- Help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools
- Work with peer DBAs/DBREs to roll out changes to our production environment
- Help mitigate database-related production incidents
- Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for eg. through reviews of db migrations query and performance optimizations)
- Design build and maintain core database pieces for massive scaling
- Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack.
Requirements:
- 5 years of experience running PostgreSQL in large production environments.
- 2 years of experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (Chef Ansible Puppet Terraform).
- Managed a DB at least 100GB in size on a high OLTP throughput database environment
- 2 years of experience with any programming language or advanced scripting - Python bash
- Knowledge of Linux and/or the Unix Shell
- Have solid knowledge of SQL and PL/pgSQL
- Have solid knowledge of the internals of PostgreSQL.
- Have experience working in a distributed production environment.
- Share ClickUps core values and work in accordance with those values.
- Have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Great collaborations skills and can communicate asynchronously.
- Being Proactive - You see something broken you cant help but fix it!
- Urge for delivering quickly and iterating fast.
- Have a passion for stable and secure systems management practices.
- Cloud technology experience with AWS Azure GCP
- Some data modeling and design skills
- Show ownership of Relational Database/PostgreSQL ecosystem
- Bonus if you know non-relational database technologies - DynamoDB Redis etc.
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Unsure if you meet all the qualifications of this job description but are deeply excited about the role We hire based on ambition grit and a passion for improving the way people work. If you think ClickUp is the company for you we encourage you to apply!
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