Database Reliability Engineer - DBRE
Cognite - AI for Industry · India (Bengaluru)
Posted about 2 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 71 days Cognite - AI for Industry's roles stay open a median of 79 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Cognite - AI for Industry's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Cognite - AI for Industry
- high 46 stale, 1 reposted of 48 open
- Hiring momentum
- 79 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
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About this role
The Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) at Cognite will focus on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and automation of the company's core database infrastructure, primarily working with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Kafka within a multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based platform. The role involves standardizing and automating lifecycle management, improving operational workflows, and collaborating with various engineering teams to enhance data platform availability and performance.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- 6+ years of experience in Database Reliability Engineering, Database Engineering, SRE, Platform Engineering, or a closely related role
- Strong hands-on experience operating PostgreSQL at scale, preferably in cloud-managed environments
- Strong experience with Elasticsearch, including cluster administration, performance tuning, scaling, shard management, and troubleshooting
- Experience operating databases and stateful workloads on Kubernetes
- Experience with Kafka or another distributed database/storage system is highly valuable
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or similar tools
Nice to have
- Experience with Kafka and fdb-kubernetes-operator
- Experience with Elastic Cloud and ECK
- Proficiency in Go for building automation, tooling, or operators; Python or another scripting language is a plus
- Experience managing PostgreSQL through Kubernetes operators or custom resources
- Experience with Kubernetes operators and building automation for stateful workloads
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- The role involves significant ownership and responsibility across multiple database technologies
- Focus on automation and reducing operational toil may appeal to candidates interested in modern engineering practices
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