Database Reliability Engineer at Lulalend

OVERALL PURPOSE

• We are building a small, focused innovation pod inside a fintech scale-up — and data reliability is at the core of everything we ship.
• This is not a traditional DBA role. You will own the full lifecycle of data in the pod: pipelines, migrations, schema safety, and the observability to know when something breaks before the business does. You will also own CI/CD and the infrastructure layer on Azure — because in a small, fast-moving team, deployment reliability and data reliability are the same problem.
• If you have made the shift from protecting databases to enabling teams to move fast without breaking data, and want to build something from the ground up within a fast-moving agentic development process, this is the role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, execute, and safeguard database and schema migrations — including rollback strategies
• Build and maintain data pipelines — from ingestion through to reliable, queryable outputs
• Work with modern data tooling (dbt, Snowflake, or equivalent) as the pod's data stack matures
• Set up and maintain observability across both data and application layers: logging, metrics, alerting
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for rapid, safe deployment
• Own the infrastructure layer on Azure: environments, configuration, secrets, networking
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Azure managed services
• Document data and infrastructure decisions so production teams can inherit what we build

THE EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Production experience with database migrations and data pipelines in a regulated or financial environment
• Comfort with modern data tooling — dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience owning CI/CD pipelines end-to-end
• Hands-on with Docker and Azure managed services
• Strong understanding of observability tooling across data and application layers
• Comfortable operating as the sole data reliability and platform function within a small team
• Systematic approach to data integrity, deployment risk, and rollback planning

You will be expected to grow into:

• Infrastructure as Code practices (Terraform or equivalent) — prior IaC experience is a strong advantage but not a blocker for the right candidate

Advantageous:

• Familiarity with agentic development workflows or AI-assisted tooling
• Prior experience preparing data systems for handoff to a larger ops or platform team

OUR TECH STACK

• Azure
• Snowflake
• DBT
• Python
• SQL
• Hex
• GitHub