Database Reliability Engineer

Overview

Fuse Energy is looking for a backend/data-focused engineer to own the reliability and performance of our database stack and data pipelines. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable data models and analytics capabilities. Your work will enable real-time analytics, reporting, and product insights as we scale our integrated energy platform. This role offers a chance to shape data infrastructure at a fast-growing, mission-driven energy company.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity sign-on bonus
• Biannual bonus scheme
• Fully expensed tech to match your needs
• Paid annual leave
• Breakfast and dinner allowance for office-based employees

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Fuse’s database infrastructure across Postgres and ClickHouse
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines to support analytics, reporting, and product needs
• Design and evolve analytical schemas translating business logic into structured data models
• Migrate and transform data from Postgres into ClickHouse ensuring performance and reliability
• Develop and maintain DBT models reflecting our business domain for accessible data
• Implement tests and data quality checks to ensure trustworthy datasets
• Identify and eliminate duplicates, improve data consistency, and enforce clean modelling standards
• Manage all database and infrastructure changes through IaC — minimise direct DB modifications

Key requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a backend or data-focused engineering role
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Hands-on experience with relational databases, especially Postgres
• Experience designing schemas and data models reflecting real-world business logic
• Familiarity with DBT or similar data transformation frameworks
• Strong understanding of data validation, testing, and quality assurance
• IaC tooling experience (Pulumi, AWS CDK) — treat database as code
• Ability to quickly translate unfamiliar logic into clean data models

• SQL
• Python
• Postgres
• DBT
• data modeling
• data validation

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