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With unmatched industrial heritage and a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities, including low-code AI agents, Cognite accelerates the digital transformation to drive operational improvements.\nWe thrive in challenges. We challenge assumptions. We execute with speed and ownership. If you view obstacles as signals to step forward - not backwards - you’ll feel right at home here. \nOur Moonshot is bold: Unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we will forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to join our Cloud deployment team and take ownership of the reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence of our core database infrastructure.\nYou will work across PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Kafka, supporting a multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based platform at significant scale. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure and database challenges, eliminating operational toil, and building highly automated systems.\nYou will partner closely with Software Engineering, SRE, Platform Engineering, and Product teams to ensure our data platforms are highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient.\nWhat You’ll Own\nManaged PostgreSQL Fleet Orchestration\nStandardize and automate the lifecycle management of a fleet of 1000+ PostgreSQL instances across Azure, AWS, and GCP.\nBuild and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks.\nAutomate provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, backups, and operational workflows.\nImprove consistency and reliability across our PostgreSQL fleet while reducing manual operational effort.\nWork with cloud-managed PostgreSQL services including Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server, Amazon RDS, and GCP Cloud SQL.\nEvolve our provisioning and configuration approach using Kubernetes-based and Terraform-driven workflows.\nHybrid Elasticsearch Operations\nDesign, operate, and scale high-performance Elasticsearch clusters across Elastic Cloud (SaaS) and ECK (self-managed Kubernetes) environments.\nOwn the reliability and performance of Elasticsearch infrastructure supporting search, semantic retrieval, vector workloads, and high-volume operational data.\nEstablish best practices around cluster sizing, capacity planning, shard management, upgrades, backups, monitoring, and disaster recovery.\nSupport Elasticsearch deployments where PostgreSQL is the source of truth as well as environments where Elasticsearch is the authoritative datastore.\nBuild automation to simplify provisioning and lifecycle management across Elastic Cloud and ECK.\nHelp improve security, connectivity, zone awareness, and operational resilience across multi-cloud deployments.\nKafka Streaming Infrastructure\nOwn the reliability, scalability, and performance of Kafka clusters supporting high-throughput, low-latency event streaming across the platform.\nOperate Kafka in both self-managed (Kubernetes-based, e.g. Strimzi/Kafka Operator) and managed (e.g. Confluent Cloud, MSK) configurations across multi-cloud environments.\nDrive capacity planning, partition and topic design, replication strategy, and broker-level performance tuning.\nEstablish and automate best practices around upgrades, rolling restarts, backups/disaster recovery, and schema evolution (e.g. Schema Registry).\nBuild monitoring and alerting for consumer lag, broker health, ISR status, and throughput to enable early incident detection.\nPartner with Software Engineering to ensure producer/consumer patterns, retention policies, and topic ownership scale cleanly as usage grows.\nWhat You Bring\n6+ years of experience in Database Reliability Engineering, Database Engineering, SRE, Platform Engineering, or a closely related role.\nStrong hands-on experience operating PostgreSQL at scale, preferably in cloud-managed environments.\nStrong experience with Elasticsearch, including cluster administration, performance tuning, scaling, shard management, and troubleshooting.\nExperience operating databases and stateful workloads on Kubernetes.\nExperience with Kafka or another distributed database/storage system is highly valuable.\nStrong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or similar tools.\nExperience with at least one major cloud platform - Azure, AWS, or GCP - with exposure to multi-cloud environments preferred.\nStrong understanding of database reliability principles including high availability, disaster recovery, backups, replication, capacity planning, and observability.\nProficiency in scripting or programming using Python, Go, or a similar language.\nExperience automating repetitive operational tasks and building self-service infrastructure.\nStrong troubleshooting and incident-management skills, with the ability to diagnose complex distributed-system failures.\nGood to Have\nExperience with Kafka and fdb-kubernetes-operator.\nExperience with Elastic Cloud and ECK.\nProficiency in Go for building automation, tooling, or operators; Python or another scripting language is a plus.\nExperience managing PostgreSQL through Kubernetes operators or custom resources.\nExperience with Kubernetes operators and building automation for stateful workloads.\nExperience operating databases across multi-cloud and private-cloud environments.\nExperience with observability platforms and database performance monitoring.\nFamiliarity with distributed systems, data replication, consistency, and failure-domain design.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nDatabase provisioning and lifecycle operations become highly automated and repeatable.\nOperational toil across PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Kafka is significantly reduced.\nDatabase platforms can scale reliably with business and customer growth.\nIncidents are detected early and resolved through strong automation and observability.\nDatabase infrastructure is consistent and resilient across Azure, AWS, GCP, and private-cloud environments.\nEngineering teams can consume reliable database infrastructure without requiring significant manual DBRE intervention.\nWhy This Role?\nThis is an opportunity to work on large-scale, distributed data infrastructure at the heart of a modern Knowledge Graph platform. You will have significant ownership across three critical database technologies and will play a key role in making our data infrastructure more automated, reliable, and scalable.\nLearn more about us\nImpact 2025\nCognite's Industrial AI: Moonshot\nWe’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.\n Equal Opportunity\nCognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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