Database Reliability Engineer

At Handshakes, we are committed to delivering innovative and robust cloud-based solutions that drive our business forward. We are looking for an experienced Database Reliability Engineer to join our Platforms Engineering team.

In this role, you will own the health, performance, and resilience of our production database estate, working closely with Platforms Engineering and Product Engineering to keep critical data systems fast, available, and secure.

This is a hands-on operations role for someone with strong DBA fundamentals who is equally comfortable navigating cloud infrastructure and troubleshooting connectivity, health checks, and system-level issues.

Responsibilities

• Database Performance & Optimization: Write, review, and optimize SQL queries; identify long-running or resource-intensive queries and work with engineering teams to resolve them.
• Reliability Operations & On-Call: Monitor database health, c...