Software Engineer (DevOps) - Database Reliability

About Revolut

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 55+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth,‌ 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 10,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

About the role

Our Technology team isn’t just one of the best in the industry, it’s one of the best in the world. And we’re proud of it. It’s our driving force — our engine.

From building a new financial backend to creating an innovative app, there’s nothing they can’t do. We aren’t here to fix legacy systems. We're here to build world-class financial features from the ground up that'll be used by millions of people around the world.

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer with database expertise to join our Site Reliability team and drive automation and tooling to manage, scale, and maintain our databases.

Up for the challenge? Let's get in touch.

What you'll be doing

• Developing self-service database tools used by over 1k engineers
• Building and optimising automation for database provisioning, scaling, and maintenance
• Leading and supporting incident response for production database issues, ensuring reliability and fast recovery
• Delivering scalable, user-friendly platforms for provisioning and configuration management (IaC) across our product teams
• Monitoring and optimising resource costs to ensure efficient use and minimise waste
• Implementing out-of-the-box observability solutions for proactive system monitoring
• Ensuring compliance with industry standards through automated processes and continuous checks

What you'll need

• Experience managing highly available PostgreSQL clusters on bare metal or cloud outside of managed services
• Operational experience with PostgreSQL lifecycle tasks, including version upgrades, backup and restore workflows, replication configuration, and DR strategy implementation
• A deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals, including query planning, indexing strategies, vacuuming, performance tuning, and partitioning
• Monitoring and observability experience with PostgreSQL 
• Knowledge of database security, including TLS setup, roles, auditing, and encryption at rest/in transit
• To be comfortable troubleshooting live production issues, including performance degradation, lock contention, replication lag, or node failures
• Experience with cloud providers, such as GCP and AWS
• Experience with distributed systems, including scaling, fault-tolerance, load-balancing, networking, security, etc.

Nice to have

• Experience using Consul for highly available database clusters 
• Experience monitoring solutions, such as NewRelic, StackDriver, Prometheus, etc.
• Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault
• Experience as a backend developer
• Familiarity with Java and Python database drivers
• Experience with continuous delivery using Kubernetes

Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow everyday. We're not just doing this because it's the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard-working team.