About the Position

DBRE SME (Database Reliability Engineering) – Remote

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

About Us

Amach is an industry-leading technology-driven company with headquarters in Dublin and remote teams across the UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, we specialize in solving aviation complexity issues by modernizing airlines' operating models using cloud, data, and AI. Our goal is to maximize operational efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance customer experience and satisfaction.

We are seeking an experienced Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) SME to join our team and collaborate with a leading aviation customer. This fully remote role will focus on improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical database platforms.

Responsibilities

As the Database Reliability Engineering SME, you will:

Optimize the performance, availability, and reliability of production databases.
Support and improve MongoDB and Percona/MySQL environments.
Review and improve replica sets, sharding, replication, and clustering.
Troubleshoot database issues and perform root cause analysis.
Design and validate backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Build and improve database monitoring, observability, and alerting.
Lead database upgrades, migrations, and optimization projects.
Collaborate with DevOps, infrastructure, and application teams to deliver reliable database platforms.
Create documentation, runbooks, and share best practices with the wider engineering team.

Requirements

7+ years' experience in Database Engineering or Database Reliability Engineering.
Strong hands-on experience with Percona/MySQL.
Commercial experience supporting MongoDB (including replica sets, sharding, indexing, and performance tuning).
Experience with PostgreSQL is beneficial.
Strong understanding of replication, clustering, and high availability.
Experience with backup and disaster recovery, including Percona XtraBackup.
Experience using monitoring tools such as Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), Prometheus, and Grafana.
Good Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills.
Experience working with AWS, Azure, or GCP database services is an advantage.

We Offer

An opportunity to join a fast-growing company.
Options for career advancement.
Learning and development opportunities.
Flexible working environment.
Competitive salaries based on experience.

About the Company

Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.

If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!

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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honor this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.

Your Personal Data

Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

Used lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent way.
Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
Accurate and kept up to date.
Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
Kept securely.

If you would like to contact us about your data, please use the following address: [email protected]

DBRE SME (Database Reliability Engineering) – Remote

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