About the role

Database reliability engineer testing InfluxDB Enterprise 3 for correctness, stability, and performance. Building automated reliability workflows for distributed workloads and production readiness.

Responsibilities

Own and execute automated reliability, regression, and correctness test workflows within the CI/CD pipeline
Implement and maintain repeatable test contracts validating query accuracy, product lifecycle, database compactions, and recoverability
Simulate real-world customer workloads, database restarts, memory exhaustion, and deployments for exhaustive reliability testing
Collaborate with core developers to convert engineering specifications and customer root-cause analyses into formal, repeatable test constraints
Investigate complex performance data variations and capture system profiles
Identify architectural bottlenecks before production deployment
Participate in an on-call rotation when needed
Develop and review automated reports flagging query latency regressions, data divergence bugs, and resource starvation issues to engineering stakeholders

Deep hands-on experience developing using Rust, or desire to learn Rust with system experience in C++ or Golang
Proven track record in performance, regression, and reliability validation frameworks
Ability to establish repeatable baselines for distributed data systems
Minimum Bachelor’s degree
5 years of work experience
Comfort using modern AI assistants and tools such as Claude
Competency with Docker and Kubernetes
Competency with CI utilities such as CircleCI
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work asynchronously