Senior PostgreSQL Database Reliability Engineer

Storyblok • Germany

Remote

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Own the reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of the PostgreSQL data platform (primarily Amazon Aurora) behind Storyblok's flagship CMS. Work as a full member of the Infrastructure team on Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and security tooling, and share the on-call rotation. Requires 7+ years in database engineering, database reliability, infrastructure, or SRE roles, plus strong PostgreSQL depth and remote-first communication skills.

Key Highlights

Own reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of PostgreSQL platform (primarily Amazon Aurora)

Lead zero-downtime version upgrades and schema migrations at scale

Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for database systems

Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and postmortems

Raise database competence across the wider engineering organization

Storyblok is a headless CMS that enables marketers and developers to create with joy and publish with confidence. It empowers you to deliver structured and consistent content everywhere: websites, apps, AI search, and beyond. Legendary brands like Virgin Media O2, Oatly, and TomTom use Storyblok to make a bigger, faster market impact.

Posted Nov 04, 2026

Employment Full-time

Own reliability, performance, and scalability of PostgreSQL platform (primarily Amazon Aurora)

Lead zero-downtime version upgrades and schema migrations at scale

Own operational health: vacuum strategy, bloat, connection management, logical replication

Review schema changes and DDL from backend teams

Own backup, restore, and disaster recovery end-to-end

Model database capacity and cost