Database Reliability Engineer

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements:

• Extensive experience working with PostgreSQL and a passion for running stateful workloads natively on Kubernetes
• Experience leveraging CNPG to manage persistence, high availability, and automated failover
• A systems-thinking approach with a strong preference for infrastructure managed entirely as code
• Experience using Terraform to provision foundations and custom APIs to handle orchestration
• Strong interest in distributed systems, including multi-tenant, multi-region, and multi-cloud environments
• Commitment to security and building deep observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Humio
• Experience building robust, testable backend services in Java
• Strong understanding of clean relational modeling and performant DDL

Responsibilities:

• Modernize and scale our RDS fleet by designing automated strategies for seamless multi-version upgrades and proactive performance tuning
• Architect cross-cloud portability using CNPG and cloud-native patterns so our database layer remains provider-agnostic across AWS and GCP
• Build deep, proactive monitoring and alerting for our global database fleet to detect performance regressions and health issues early
• Support data streaming and zero-downtime migration strategies while ensuring data consistency and availability
• Design and implement Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery strategies to ensure rapid recovery and resilience across regions

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• Backend
• Cloud
• GCP
• Grafana
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• OpenTelemetry
• PostgreSQL
• Prometheus
• Security
• Terraform

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We are Starling, the UKs first and leading digital bank, on a mission to fix banking with fast technology, fair service, and honest values. We are a fully licensed UK bank with a fast-moving, disruptive tech culture and more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff, and Manchester offices. Our technology teams operate in a flat, open, and collaborative environment where innovation, ownership, and knowledge-sharing are valued. We offer hybrid working, with technology roles expected to attend the office at least one day per week, and we provide a strong benefits package including 25 days holiday plus public holidays, birthday leave, enhanced pension, life insurance, private medical insurance, family-friendly policies, wellbeing perks, volunteering time, and more. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

last updated 35 week of 2026