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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Strong PostgreSQL — EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS), MVCC, bloat, lock contention, vacuum/autovacuum. Aurora Serverless V2 experience preferred (storage model, reader/writer split, ACU scaling)
- ORM fluency (Django, SQLAlchemy, ActiveRecord, or similar) — predict the SQL a query will generate, spot N+1 problems on sight and how to control eager loading, column projection, aggregations, and subqueries
- Single-region multi-AZ design — practical understanding of what it does and doesn't protect against
- Production CDC experience, ideally AWS DMS — comfortable with logical replication, slot hygiene, schema evolution, and Parquet-based data lakes feeding Snowflake (or BigQuery/Redshift)
- Hands-on with pganalyze (or Datadog DBM / Performance Insights / pg_stat_statements pipelines) and CloudWatch (custom metrics, alarms, log insights)
- Experience using AI coding and review tools in a team setting — writing or maintaining AGENTS.md files, configuring review agents, iterating on prompts and configs
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 for people and AI agents.
We're growing fast. Since our founding in 2019, we've reached 7 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we're a LinkedIn Top Startup, valued at over $1B, and backed by leading investors. Join us in our mission to transform how people 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 V2), OpenSearch, Redis (ElastiCache), SQS, and RabbitMQ,...
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