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Staff Database Reliability Engineer – PostgreSQL

Stream - Amsterdam office | Remote (EU) | Toronto office

Posted Jun 10, 2026

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
$116,543 U.S. median for this role
Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function
Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
Seniority
Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
Work mode
Hybrid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
In-office days
2 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Staff Database Reliability Engineer – PostgreSQL Amsterdam office | Remote (EU) | Toronto office Location: Remote OR Hybrid from Amsterdam ABOUT STREAM Stream powers real-time Chat https://getstream.io/chat/, Video https://getstream.io/video/, Activity Feeds https://getstream.io/activity-feeds/, and AI Moderation https://getstream.io/moderation/ for billions of end-users across thousands of apps - from Strava and Bumble to eBay and Patreon. Our platform processes billions of API requests per month and supports applications with millions of concurrent users, while delivering highly reliable, low-latency services and a great developer experience. The Role We're looking for a hands-on Database Engineer to own PostgreSQL as a production system at Stream. You'll work directly with a small, senior team and be responsible for the performance, reliability, and operability of the databases that store and serve data for Stream's entire real-time platform. This is a deep, hands-on engineering role. You'll spend your time in query plans, storage internals, and the operational realities of running databases under heavy, continuous load - not administering them from a distance. Why This Role Exists We have 35-40 different DBs (largest one is 15tb), with large writing throughput. To save hosting costs, we plan on migrating from AWS RDS to self-hosted Postgres on Kubernetes. For that, we need help from someone who: What You'll Work On - Performance and internals - diagnose and resolve performance issues from the query down to the storage engine: indexing strategy, query planning, vacuum and bloat management, and tuning under sustained write load. - Reliability and operations - own the operational characteristics of

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