--- title: 'Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) at Trumid' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-database-reliability-engineer-dbre-trumid-remote-rxn2058xnhr2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-15' --- # Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) at Trumid - **Company:** Trumid - **Location:** Remote - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/trumid/jobs/7990383003 ## Job description About us. Trumid is a dynamic fintech revolutionizing the landscape of fixed income trading. With intelligent, easy-to-use, electronic solutions, we are rapidly growing and seeking exceptional talent to help redefine the boundaries of technology and finance. Founded in 2014 by a team of fixed income market experts, Trumid has quickly become one of the top three corporate bond e-trading platforms in the U.S. Today, over 1,300 traders from an extensive and expanding client network of 890+ buy-and sell-side institutions transact on Trumid monthly. With a rich history of innovation and a unique ability to innovate at scale, we collaborate closely with our clients, iterating quickly toward optimal solutions. With market share and client engagement at all-time highs and our pace of product development faster than ever, this is an exciting and transformative time at Trumid. Our business model thrives on participation, and so does our company culture. We rely on every team member’s contribution to help us accomplish our goals. To succeed at Trumid, you must be curious, passionate about your craft, ambitious, collaborative, and driven. Learn more at[www.trumid.com](http://www.trumid.com/) The opportunity. This role owns data resilience and continuity, and the scope test is simple: if losing it loses data, or makes data unavailable, it’s yours. The job exists so that data-layer failure modes — storage contention, replica lag, region loss — are found and retired in drills, not discovered in production. Our reliability doctrine is to assume failure and concentrate statefulness into a small core of systems proven against specific failure modes. Postgres is the heart of that core: everything around it gets to be disruptible because the data layer is not. You’d join the databases side of our SRE team, working alongside deep Postgres expertise. Some of what you’d walk into: - A production RDS fleet backing a live trading venue, with performance work that goes deep: we’ve characterized WAL-write contention under concurrent commits down to the fsync level, and are weighing group-commit tuning, dedicated log volumes, and storage-class changes against actual measurements. - Disaster recovery as an engineering discipline: automated cross-region failover with promotion measured in minutes, and restore paths (snapshot, point-in-time, logical) validated by timed, documented drills on a fixed cadence. - Database observability and AI-assisted tooling: engine performance telemetry exported into Prometheus and Grafana, modular database health-check skills, and an automated reviewer for schema-migration PRs. What you’ll do? - Own the durability, recoverability, and performance of the Postgres/RDS fleet across every environment: replication, failover, backup and restore, and storage behavior under load. - Make recovery provable: restore-tested coverage of every production database, timed failover drills, and measured RPO/RTO per tier — evidence, not assertion. - Own the data lifecycle end to end: retention and cleanup policies that preserve recoverability, access control at the data layer, encryption posture, and knowing where sensitive data lives. - Hunt performance pathologies at the engine level: lock contention, WAL throughput, replica lag, bloat, index hygiene, write amplification. - Build database observability with the team, and extend our AI-assisted operations tooling (health-check skills, migration PR review). About you. - Five or more years running production PostgreSQL at meaningful scale — ideally on RDS or Aurora — with depth in the internals: replication, WAL mechanics, MVCC and vacuum behavior, query planning and performance. - You’ve owned the full lifecycle of data somewhere, not just the query path: retention, backup and restore, access control, and security posture. - Disaster-recovery experience you can talk through concretely — failovers you designed, drills you ran, and what they changed. - Infrastructure fluency: infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar), scripting (Python, bash, SQL), Linux, and cloud storage/IOPS characteristics. - An SRE sensibility: SLOs, blameless postmortems, and a preference for rehearsed over improvised. - Clear writing — you leave runbooks and decision records behind you. Nice to have. - Warehouse and pipeline experience (BigQuery, AlloyDB, Kafka-based pipelines) — over time we intend to extend the same reliability guarantees beyond Postgres to every store that holds business data. - Experience in regulated or fintech environments; exposure to data classification and compliance review. - Kubernetes; Prometheus/Grafana/ELK-style observability stacks. - Interest in AI-assisted operations tooling Employee benefits. - Highly competitive compensation - Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage - Team-oriented and collaborative company culture - Lively and dynamic office space with fully stocked kitchen In compliance with New York City Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range for this role in New York City is between $225,000 – $265,000. This range does not include discretionary bonus or other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with this job. Several factors are considered when determining a candidate’s compensation. Trumid is an equal opportunity employer. Please note: All communication from Trumid’s recruiting team comes from @trumid.com email addresses. We conduct remote interviews via Zoom only. We will never ask you to purchase equipment, download software (other than Zoom), or share sensitive personal information during the hiring process. ## About Trumid ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Trumid is a fintech company that operates one of the largest electronic trading platforms for U.S. corporate bonds and other fixed income securities. - **Entity Type**: Private - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Ronnie Mateo (Founder & Co-CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Technology (Fintech), Fixed Income Electronic Trading, Capital Markets - **Target customers**: B2B – Institutional clients including asset managers, banks, credit hedge funds, and alternative liquidity providers (buy-side and sell-side). - **Mission or purpose statement**: To advance the traditionally voice-based credit market through digital innovation, transforming fixed income trading with technology, design, and superior user experience. ## Products & Services - **Trumid Trading Platform**: A fully in-house developed, multi-protocol electronic trading platform for U.S. corporate bonds and other fixed income securities. It integrates four core trading protocols: Trumid Swarms (anonymous all-to-all), Attributed Trading (bilateral dealer-to-client), Request-for-Quote (RFQ), and Portfolio Trading (list-based trading). - **Trumid AutoPilot™**: An automated trading solution for RFQ workflows, announced in 2025. - **Trumid FVMP™ (Fair Value Model Price)**: A proprietary, real-time predictive pricing model for bonds that provides pre-trade analytics and price discovery. - **Trumid PT Pricer™**: A tool that estimates where a list of bonds should transact as a portfolio trade versus single-name execution. - **Data & Analytics**: A suite of real-time market data, pre-trade pricing tools, and post-trade analytics to give clients a comprehensive market view. - **Grey Market Trading**: A venue for trading new bond issues before they are officially priced, including a unique Grey RFQ workflow. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Not publicly disclosed. The company is private and has not publicly announced its funding rounds. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed. The company is founder-led and has not announced external institutional investors. - **Growth Signals**: - Over $3 trillion in total attributed trading volume since launch. - Recorded over $1 trillion in total traded volume in 2024 alone. - Nearly 1,000 buy- and sell-side institutions and over 1,400 traders use the platform monthly. - Recognized as one of the three largest electronic trading platforms in the U.S. for corporate bonds (Crisil Coalition Greenwich, 2025). - Year-over-year growth in 2025 across key metrics (volume, participants, institutions). - Expanded into new asset classes including Emerging Markets bonds and Grey Market trading. - Launched multiple new products in 2024-2025: Trumid AutoPilot™, Portfolio Trading, Rates Automation tools, and enhanced FVMP™. ## Competitive Advantages - **Network Effect**: A large, engaged, and growing community of nearly 1,000 institutions creates deep liquidity that is hard for new entrants to replicate. - **Multi-Protocol Platform**: Offers a full ecosystem of trading protocols (Swarms, Attributed, RFQ, Portfolio) in a single, intuitive application, giving clients flexibility and efficiency. - **Proprietary Technology & Data**: In-house developed platform with unique data products like FVMP™ and PT Pricer™ that provide a competitive edge in pricing and analytics. - **Domain Expertise**: Founded and led by former traders and fixed income market experts, ensuring deep understanding of client workflows and market nuances. - **Design-Led Approach**: A focus on intuitive design and user experience differentiates Trumid from legacy, less user-friendly trading platforms. ## Strategic Focus - **Product Expansion**: Continuing to add new trading protocols and asset classes (e.g., Emerging Markets, Grey Market, Rates Automation) to broaden the platform's utility. - **Automation**: Advancing automated trading solutions like Trumid AutoPilot™ to streamline trader workflows and increase efficiency. - **Platform Growth**: Deepening the network effect by attracting more institutional participants and increasing trading volumes across all protocols. - **Technology Leadership**: Maintaining a fully in-house developed technology stack to enable rapid innovation and maintain a competitive edge in data, analytics, and platform design. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as dynamic, team-driven, and collaborative, with a focus on innovation, autonomy, and creative problem-solving. Core values include building trust, differentiation through design, staying nimble, and domain expertise. - **Work Model**: Hybrid work model that combines in-office presence with flexible arrangements where possible. The primary office is in New York, NY. - **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive compensation, fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage. - **Engineering & Tech Culture**: A fully in-house developed platform means engineers and technologists work on challenging, high-impact problems in real-time financial markets. The tech stack is modern and built from the ground up. - **Growth & Development**: The company emphasizes personal growth, encouraging employees to embrace new challenges and step outside their comfort zones. A 2026 Summer Internship program is available. - **Team & Collaboration**: Described as a supportive, team-oriented, and collaborative environment where every voice counts. The culture is idea-driven and empowers bold thinking. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Trumid is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment. ## Sources 1. [trumid.com](https://www.trumid.com/about-us/) 2. [trumid.com](https://www.trumid.com/about-us/careers/) 3. [trumid.com](https://www.trumid.com/) 4. [trumid.com](https://www.trumid.com/about-us/culture/) 5. 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