Database Reliability Engineer (OpenSearch)

We are monday.com, a global software company transforming how businesses run. Our product suite can adapt to the needs of diverse industries and use cases within one powerful platform, empowering ~250,000 customers worldwide to reimagine how work gets done, drive greater efficiency, and scale like never before.

With over 2,900 employees across the globe, we grow by prioritizing transparency and knowledge sharing. We care about the impact you make, not the hours you clock, so we encourage initiative, ownership, and fresh thinking. We back our people with flexible work, wellness and mental health support, and a work environment built on collaboration.

We fully embrace the AI revolution and we equip you with AI-powered IDEs, customizable agent rules, prompt engineering tools to streamline your workflow and AI-infused CI/CD pipelines designed to boost speed and reliability. You'll also tap into AI-driven insights, helping you make smarter decisions, faster.

The role is based in our Warsaw office - established in 2022, it is a growing hub for engineers who love solving impactful problems. Teams here work on a broad range of challenges that push the boundaries of our products and infrastructure. Dive into these blog posts to discover the kind of work that could be waiting for you:

• Detecting traffic anomalies at scale

• Managing Trace Volume at monday.com

• How we mastered Content Security Policy

• Guarding the herd – managing database servers at scale

About the role

• Be responsible for the reliability of the OpenSearch clusters and other databases, making sure they run smoothly while providing the required performance and scale.

• Take part in the team’s projects including building automations for complex scenarios, automating observability, and introducing new technologies to the company.

• Support our developers when designing new features and migrating data.

• Build robust scripts and solutions to allow DB self management by developers

• Use and develop change management solutions using Terraform and other tools

• As data is at the core of the product, you will have a direct impact on the manageability, availability and performance of monday.com

• You will be working with a small team of experienced and highly talented engineers with cutting edge technologies while taking full responsibility and ownership from conception to post-deployment in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

The team’s stack - MySQL, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Cassandra, Redis, and we are also using AWS, Go, Python, Kubernetes, Linux, Node.js

Requirements

• Proven working experience and deep understanding of ElasticSearch or Opensearch

• Background in RDBMS (MySQL / PostgreSQL/ Oracle / SQL Server / etc).

• Experience of at least 4+ years with ElasticSearch / OpenSearch performance, design, and scale .

• Coding experience and understanding of code and software environment.

• Experience and understanding of cloud environments and tools

• Experience in leading projects, POCing different technologies and rolling out new solutions to the production environment.

• Great skills of seeing a big picture and system architecture planning.

• Team player, egoless, strong communication skills, and empathy.

• Degree in Computer Science (not a must; we're always looking for super talented people).

Benefits

• From Monday to Wednesday, we'll fuel your day with free breakfast and lunch in the office.

• Enjoy private medical care and Multisport card to keep you healthy.

• We've got you covered with life insurance.

• We care of employee's mental health as well - you will get access to Calm Mindfulness App.

• Get awesome discounts on our partners' products and services.

• Join in on our fun team events and get-togethers.

• Look forward to a little something special from us during your birthday and work anniversaries.

• For Online Learning opportunities, you will gain access to LinkedIn Learning.