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That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact.\nFounded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection.\nHuntress now secures more than 6M endpoints and 16M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.\nTitle: Staff Database Reliability Engineer \nReports to: Engineering Manager \nLocation: Remote US\nCompensation Range: $215,000 to $245,000 base plus bonus and equity\n\nWhat We Do: \nCybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact.\nFounded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection.\nHuntress now secures more than 5M endpoints and 11M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.\nWhat You’ll Do: \nHuntress is growing our SRE Engineering team and is looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about stability, resilience, and scalability. You’ll be joining a high-performing team responsible for proactively building, monitoring, and implementing the databases that are a core part of the Huntress Security Platform and supporting our millions of installed endpoint agents.\nResponsibilities: \nContinuously review and fine-tune critical PostgreSQL configuration parameters (e.g., shared_buffers, work_mem, autovacuum settings) to maximize resource utilization and match the current workload profile.\nForecast future resource needs based on application growth and agent usage trends, and propose scaling solutions.\nDesign, implement, and manage comprehensive monitoring dashboards and alerting systems to track key performance indicators (KPIs) like latency, throughput, connection count, and cache hit ratio.\nDesign, implement, and maintain optimal indexing strategies to support application requirements, and systematically identify and remove redundant or underutilized indexes that degrade write performance.\nImplement and manage advanced scaling techniques such as database partitioning for large tables and, where necessary, coordinate efforts for database sharding.\nPartner with SRE team to optimize PostgreSQL deployments in Azure, ensuring efficient use of cloud-specific storage and networking. \nProvide technical guidance to application teams on their query/schema/index designs.\nWhat You Bring To The Team: \n5+ years experience with scaling, configuration, maintenance and management of PostgreSQL clusters in production environments.\nExpertise in designing, implementing, and supporting replication (e.g., streaming replication, logical replication), failover mechanisms, and robust backup/recovery strategies\nDeep understanding of PostgreSQL's core architecture, including the WAL, transaction management, locking mechanisms, and the role of background processes like autovacuum.\nExtensive hands-on experience managing and maintaining large-scale (Terabyte-level or high-transaction volume) PostgreSQL databases in a live, 24/7 production environment.\nExperience with observability tools like DataDog, NewRelic, etc. (any tooling is fine)\nDeep experience of tuning critical performance parameters\nBonus points if you have:\nUnderstanding of NoSQL data models (e.g., document schemas for MongoDB, key-value structures for Redis, or column families for Cassandra) to optimize for specific access patterns\nUnderstanding of when to use an RDB and when not to\nExperience with IaC (infrastructure as code)\nWhat We Offer: \n100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015\nGenerous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays\n12 weeks of paid parental leave\nHighly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans \n401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution\nLife and Disability insurance plans\nStock options for all full-time employees \nOne-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office\nAnnual allowance for education and professional development assistance \n$75 USD/month digital reimbursement\nAccess to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth\n\nHuntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.\nWe do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status. \nWe do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit small businesses.\n\nAccommodations:\nIf you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to . Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response.\nIf you have questions about your personal data privacy at Huntress, please visit our privacy page.\n#BI-Remote\nHuntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are. \nWe do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status. \nWe do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.\nAccommodations: \nIf you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to . Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response. \nHuntress uses artificial intelligence tools to assist in reviewing and evaluating job applications, including resume screening, skills assessment, and candidate matching and comparisons. These AI tools support our human recruiters in the initial review process, but do not make final hiring decisions without human involvement. By submitting your application, you acknowledge this use of AI in our recruitment process. 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