Senior Operations Engineer Data & Database Focus

Role Overview

At Gotransverse, we've built and continue to refine our approach to Service Reliability Engineering. Our Operations team consists of exceptional engineers with deep expertise across software, network, data, and systems engineering. Together, they design, manage, and maintain infrastructure and services that require minimal administration, embracing the philosophy that operational components should be treated with the same rigor and discipline as software.

We are strong believers in DevOps principles and methodologies, and we work to empower all engineerswhether system-focused or feature-focused build and deploy scalable, reliable, and impactful solutions.

We are now looking to add another engineer to our Operations team, specifically someone with a strong background in databases and data management. This engineer will eventually join our on-call rotation and share responsibility for end-to-end service delivery and reliability alongside the rest of the Company service delivery team.

Responsibilities

Service Reliability & Architecture

• Lead the design and implementation of reliable, scalable service architectures
• Ensure high availability, performance, and durability of production environments
• Drive reliability standards, patterns, and best practices across teams
• Lead major incident response efforts and guide long-term remediation

Database & Data Platform Engineering

• Architect, maintain, and optimize database systems (SQL)
• Design and implement replication, backup, failover, and disaster recovery strategies
• Improve data pipelines, storage systems, and high-availability configurations
• Conduct deep performance analyses and resolve complex database issues

Automation & Tooling Leadership

• Build and improve internal tools for deployment, orchestration, observability, and maintenance
• Automate operational workflows to eliminate manual processes and reduce error rates
• Mentor engineers on automation strategies and reliability engineering techniques

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation across services
• Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code standards
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design systems for operability and maintainability
• Drive improvements in monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting systems

Operational Excellence

• Participate in and help lead the on-call rotation
• Develop runbooks, guides, and processes for consistent operational practices
• Conduct and lead post-incident reviews and reliability-focused retrospectives
• Identify systemic issues and deliver strategic, long-term solutions

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• Strong proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Extensive experience with database administration, replication, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Advanced knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and distributed system fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong scripting or programming experience (Python, Java, Bash, Ansible)
• Experience designing and maintaining observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

DevOps & Reliability Skills

• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and deployment automation
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Ability to design highly available, fault-tolerant architectures
• Experience guiding teams through incident response and improving on-call processes

Leadership & Collaboration

• Ability to mentor and support engineers across teams
• Strong communication skills, especially during incidents and cross-team discussions
• Track record of leading reliability projects from concept through execution
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering roadmap decisions based on operational needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed data systems or event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with SRE frameworks such as SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Experience designing or managing multi-region cloud deployments
• Prior experience in a Senior, Staff, or Lead SRE role