# Senior Database Reliability Engineer at Scribe

- Company: Scribe
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://scribe.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $145K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scribe/e8c36a84-1bff-4918-837e-667436bad978
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scribe-senior-database-reliability-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering