Senior Database Reliability Engineer (Senior DRE)

Who We Are

NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and movement becomes momentum. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world’s most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm—220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way.

Your Role in Our Mission

As the Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you’ll be the dedicated owner of database reliability across our real-money trading products, operating within a multi-region AWS environment with multi-terabyte databases and tables containing hundreds of millions of rows. As our Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you’ll combine hands-on database engineering with technical leadership, driving performance, recoverability, and operational excellence across our data tier. You’ll establish engineering standards, mentor junior engineers, lead critical database incidents, and work closely with engineering and business leaders to ensure our data infrastructure remains reliable, secure, and ready to scale.

How You’ll Make an Impact

Database Performance & Architecture

• Own query performance and latency across Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL through execution-plan analysis, indexing strategies, and database statistics optimization. • Design and implement partitioning, sharding, and data lifecycle strategies for high-volume tables. • Identify and remove unused or redundant indexes to improve database efficiency. • Build zero-downtime archiving pipelines using S3, Parquet, and Athena while keeping seven years of compliance data queryable.

Reliability, Recovery & Incident Management

• Own disaster recovery across the data tier, including Aurora Global Database, cross-region replication, and failover automation. • Define, test, and track recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) through regular disaster recovery drills. • Maintain replication, backup, and point-in-time recovery (PITR) health, including routine restore testing. • Lead data-tier incidents as incident commander, coordinate response efforts, make informed recovery trade-offs, and drive blameless root-cause analyses.

Safe Database Changes & Infrastructure

• Lead safe schema and data migrations on live tables using online DDL, expand-contract patterns, and AWS DMS/CDC where appropriate. • Own caching reliability across ElastiCache/Redis, including invalidation strategies, TTL hygiene, and failure handling. • Manage database configuration and infrastructure as code using Terraform. • Define and monitor data-tier SLIs and SLOs, building effective observability and alerting with Datadog or similar tools.