Beacon Biosignals is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Database Excellence team. You will take ownership of the PostgreSQL database infrastructure that powers GitLab.com, one of the largest single-tenancy open source SaaS platforms, automating operational tasks and designing solutions that scale to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users worldwide.
What You'll Do
- Automate operational tasks across all environments, from package updates and configuration changes to provisioning user-facing services.
- Design and maintain PostgreSQL database infrastructure components that allow GitLab.com to scale reliably.
- Respond to production incidents and platform emergencies, working with peer SREs to diagnose and resolve database-related issues.
- Build observability systems that monitor database health, predict capacity needs, and alert on symptoms rather than outages.
- Develop and ship database performance solutions in collaboration with product and engineering teams, including query optimization and migration reviews.
- Create self-service tools and automation, using Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and GitLab ChatOps, empowering engineering teams to manage their own database interactions safely.
- Document decisions, learnings, and operational procedures to make knowledge repeatable and eventually automated.
- Participate in regularly scheduled on-call rotations to ensure GitLab.com remains operational during off-hours and weekends.
What We're Looking For
- Hands-on experience running PostgreSQL in high-growth, large production environments, including self-managed infrastructure and database-as-a-service platforms.
- Expertise with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet.
- Solid understanding of SQL, PL/pgSQL, data modeling, data structure design, and PostgreSQL internals for troubleshooting and optimization.
- Experience working in large-scale, distributed SaaS production environments managing reliability, performance, and scalability challenges at significant scale.
- Strong written communication skills and commitment to documentation; you thrive in remote, asynchronous environments.
- Proactive, hands-on approach where you identify issues, take ownership of solutions, and contribute improvements.
- Capability to mentor junior team members and develop deep expertise to share with others.
Nice to Have
- Backend engineering experience with languages such as Ruby or Go, and/or familiarity with OLAP databases like Clickhouse.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and operators for managing database infrastructure in containerized environments.
Technical Stack
- PostgreSQL, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SQL, PL/pgSQL, Ruby, Go, Clickhouse, Kubernetes
Team & Environment
You’ll join the Database Excellence team, part of Data Engineering. You'll collaborate in a remote, asynchronous work environment that embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier and fosters a high-performance culture driven by values and continuous knowledge exchange.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $124,300—$266,400 USD
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Work Mode
This is a global, remote position open to candidates in the United States.
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