Stream is hiring a
Staff Database Reliability Engineer - PostgreSQL
About Stream
Stream powers APIs for Chat Messaging, Activity Feeds, Auto Moderation, Video & Audio that are used by over a billion end-users, and are powered by Go, RocksDB, and Raft - with response times typically measured in single-digit milliseconds. We reached a new industry benchmark for scaling real-time chat as-a-service, with 5 million concurrent connections supported in a single chat channel. We’re currently one of the fastest growing startups in Europe and Colorado on our Series B round of $38 mln.
Job Description
Stream is looking for a Staff Database Reliability Engineer with deep PostgreSQL expertise to own end-to-end reliability for a fleet of 35–40 PostgreSQL databases (largest around 15TB). You will work on high-write, high-concurrency APIs, currently migrating from AWS RDS to self-hosted Postgres on Kubernetes. Responsibilities include query plans, vacuum and bloat management, replication, backup, high availability, and sharding. You will collaborate with application teams on access patterns and drive production-grade reliability across self-managed databases. Explicit non-goals: RDS/Aurora-only backgrounds, analytics/data-warehouse experience, or DBAs who don’t code. Strong plus: CloudNativePG, Kubeblocks, logical replication, CockroachDB.Remote
Remote Conditions
Europe-based remote work accepted; Amsterdam on-site option may be available
Salary
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Benefits
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Tech Tags
AutovacuumCloudNativePGCockroachdbKubeblocksKubernetesLogical ReplicationMVCCPostgreSQLQuery PlannerReplicationSharding
Senior Role
Date Listed
04 June, 2026 (3 days ago)
