Automatically capture, improve, and scale how work gets done. Give your teams and AI agents the context to do their best work. Trusted by 94% of the Fortune 500. Backed by Redpoint and Amplify.
About the role
We're hiring a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Scribe's data tier. Our engineering org is doubling — which means the guardrails, automation, and standards you put in place today will carry a much larger team through the next phase of growth. This is a senior IC role with real ownership: you'll set the bar for how engineers across the company interact with our databases, not just keep the lights on.
What they're looking for
- Deep PostgreSQL expertise in practice: read EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) fluently, understand MVCC, bloat, lock contention, and vacuum behavior, and tune Aurora Serverless V2 for latency and throughput
- Work with an ORM (Django, SQLAlchemy, ActiveRecord, or similar) at production scale – predict the SQL a query generates, spot N+1 issues on sight, and know when joins beat batched IN queries and when they don't
- Run CDC pipelines in production, ideally with AWS DMS — comfort with logical replication, slot hygiene, schema evolution, and Parquet-based data lakes feeding Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift
- Hands-on experience with pganalyze (or Datadog DBM / pg_stat_statements pipelines), CloudWatch, and Honeycomb (or another high-cardinality tracing tool), comfortable with OpenTelemetry
- Work with OpenSearch, Redis, and at least one production message broker (SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka) at scale
- Write real automation — Python, Go, or similar — and use Terraform or comparable IaC to manage infrastructure
More about this role
Scribe is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers. More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to own their specialized intelligence: the unique way their teams work, decide, and get things done. Our Specialized Intelligence platform automatically captures how work happens and turns it into a living asset that helps people and AI agents do their best work.
We're growing fast, since our founding in 2019, we've grown to 7 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we've been named a LinkedIn Top Startup, are valued at over $1 billion, and are backed by leading investors. Join us in our mission to transform how people do work.
We're hiring a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Scribe's data tier. Our engineering org is doubling — which means the guardrails, automation, and standards you put in place today will carry a much larger team through the next phase of growth. This is a senior IC role with real ownership: you'll set the bar for how engineers across the company interact with our databases, not just keep the lights on.
Our stack is Django on PostgreSQL (Aurora Serverless...
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