Air · 16 hours ago
Staff Database Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $240K/yr
5+ years expAir is a company that focuses on creative workflows for leading brands, and they are seeking a Staff Database Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the performance and reliability of PostgreSQL Aurora infrastructure, developing long-term scaling strategies, and building observability frameworks to maintain database health.
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Responsibilities
Ensure Database Reliability & Performance
Own the health, performance, and availability of Air's PostgreSQL Aurora infrastructure
Proactively optimize database parameters, indexes, and query patterns to maintain sub-100ms p95 response times
Uplevel migration practices and tooling to ensure zero-downtime schema changes as the platform scales
Establish and maintain comprehensive backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures with documented RTO/RPO targets
Partner with backend engineers to implement database best practices in application code (connection pooling, query optimization, caching strategies)
Plan and Execute Long-Term Scaling Strategy
Develop multi-quarter roadmap to scale Air's database infrastructure to support 10x growth in asset volume and user activity
Collaborate with backend engineers and product leadership to model data growth patterns and anticipate scaling inflection points
Evaluate and implement horizontal scaling strategies (read replicas, sharding, partitioning) aligned with business needs
Continuously assess AWS Aurora capabilities, PostgreSQL ecosystem innovations, and emerging database technologies for strategic advantage
Design and implement database architecture that supports Air's AI-powered features and real-time creative workflows
Build Observability and Data Health Framework
Create comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and reporting systems to maintain database reliability and inform data-driven infrastructure decisions
Implement detailed instrumentation for database performance metrics (query latency, connection pool utilization, replication lag, disk I/O)
Build automated alerting for anomalies in query performance, connection patterns, and resource utilization
Create executive-level dashboards showing database health trends, capacity utilization, and cost efficiency
Develop regular database health review cadence with engineering leadership to surface insights and drive continuous improvement
Qualification
Required
5+ years using PostgreSQL and working with Distributed Database
Proficient in Postgres Database operations, tuning and query optimization
Familiar with database observability tooling and establishing best practices around health metric
Familiar with AWS Aurora or RDS
You like to work in public, own problems end-to-end, and move with intentional speed - so your best ideas ship fast and make a visible dent
Everyone at Air plays to win, says the hard thing, and progresses every day while building genuine relationships
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance—including dependent coverage
Generous workplace stipend
Professional development reimbursements
Unlimited vacation time
Company
Air
Air.inc is a visual workspace designed to automate creative operations by helping teams collect, approve, and share content.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$63MKey Investors
AvenirHeadlineTiger Global Management
2025-01-09Series B· $35M
2022-01-28Series Unknown· $10M
2020-09-16Series A· $12M
Leadership Team
Shane Hegde
Co-Founder & CEO
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