Database Site Reliability Engineer

Compare the Market

Database Reliability Engineer developing and maintaining highly available database systems at Compare the Market. Driving performance, scalability, and operational excellence while collaborating with engineers and data specialists.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, configure, and operate highly available database and data storage systems
Drive reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across database environments
Lead platform improvement initiatives
Monitor, optimise, and automate database operations
Identify and address technical debt and performance bottlenecks
Support reliability of data pipelines and services
Participate in incident response and continuous improvement activities
Collaborate with engineers and data specialists

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience operating and improving production database or data platform systems
Proven ability to own services end-to-end
Strong technical expertise
Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills
Solid understanding of database design, performance optimisation, and reliability engineering principles
Experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident management practices
Understanding of data platforms and data pipelines

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Flexible working arrangements
Professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

database designperformance optimisationreliability engineeringdata storage systemsdata platformsdata pipelinesmonitoringobservabilityincident managementautomation

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcollaborationleadershipcommunicationoperational excellence