Sporty Group

Database Reliability Engineer

Sporty Group

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Anywhere in Europe

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Tech Stack

GoMongoDBMySQLPython

About the role

  • Work in a team of DBRE and DevOps professionals
  • Design, implement, and maintain highly available database architectures to support business growth across multiple countries
  • Improve existing database infrastructure, including performance tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery strategies, and disaster recovery procedures
  • Develop automation tools and internal platforms using Go/Python to streamline database operations, reduce manual interventions, and minimize human errors
  • Monitor database health and performance metrics, establish alerting mechanisms based on SLO burn rates, and proactively identify potential issues
  • Take ownership and responsibility for database operations including schema changes, data migrations, and production deployments
  • Collaborate with development teams to provide database design consultation, query optimization, and troubleshooting support
  • Conduct regular database security audits and implement security best practices to protect sensitive data

Requirements

  • 4+ years experience tackling and managing advanced MySQL and MongoDB problems
  • A self-driven Database Reliability Engineer with proven experience in managing large-scale database systems in production environments
  • Have a deep understanding of database architecture, performance optimisation, high availability solutions, and database security best practices
  • Following the latest industry trends in database technologies and are passionate about building reliable, scalable data infrastructure
  • Have strong automation mindset and programming skills to build tools that improve database operations and reliability
  • Understand SLI/SLO/SLA concepts and have experience implementing reliability engineering practices
Benefits
  • A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
  • 28 days paid annual leave
  • Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
  • Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
  • Top of the line equipment
  • Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
MySQLMongoDBGoPythondatabase architectureperformance tuningcapacity planningbackup/recovery strategiesdisaster recoveryquery optimization
Soft Skills
self-drivenownershipcollaborationtroubleshootingautomation mindset