Database Reliability Engineer
Fuse Energy Open · verified Oct 24, 2026 At a glance
Mid-level Site Reliability role at Fuse Energy. Remote, United Kingdom · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Keep Postgres and ClickHouse dependable and responsive as Fuse’s data infrastructure grows
- Build data pipelines for analytics, reporting and product needs, then maintain them as requirements evolve
- Shape analytical schemas and DBT models so business logic becomes structured, accessible data
- Move and transform Postgres data into ClickHouse while protecting performance and reliability
- Use infrastructure-as-code for database changes, and add checks to catch bad data and duplication
What you bring
- At least three years in backend or data-focused engineering
- Strong SQL skills and working proficiency in Python are essential
- Hands-on experience with relational databases, especially Postgres
- Experience building schemas and data models from business logic, plus familiarity with DBT or a comparable framework
- You understand data validation and testing, and manage infrastructure with tools such as Pulumi or AWS CDK
Who this fits
This remote role suits a mid-level engineer who can move quickly into unfamiliar business domains and turn their logic into clear data models. It calls for an individual contributor focused on database reliability, data engineering and infrastructure-as-code.
From the employer
Fuse Energy is an energy startup on a mission to make energy abundant and affordable, fast. We combine first-principles thinking with cutting-edge technology to build a radically better energy system.
We've raised over $200M from top-tier investors including Balderton, Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Lowercarbon, Ribbit, 20VC, Hummingbird and Collaborative Fund, alongside strategic angels including Nico Rosberg and GPs behind Meta, Revolut, Spotify and Uber.
We're building a fully integrated energy company: developing our own solar, batteries and other generation projects, building our own hardware, improving and developing grid infrastructure, trading power in real time, using AI across the business, and installing distributed energy in homes. By selling directly to consumers we cut out the middleman, lower costs and pass the savings on to our customers.
We're hiring a Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance and scalability of Fuse's data infrastructure. This is a remote role.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, performance and scalability of Fuse's database infrastructure across Postgres and ClickHouse
- Build and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines to support analytics, reporting and product needs
- Own the design and evolution of analytical schemas, translating business logic into structured, intuitive data models
- Migrate and transform data from Postgres into ClickHouse, ensuring performance and reliability
- Develop and maintain DBT models that reflect our business domain and make data easily accessible for teams
- Implement tests and data quality checks to ensure reliable, trustworthy datasets
- Identify and eliminate duplicates, improve data consistency and enforce clean modelling standards
- Manage all database and infrastructure changes through IaC, minimising direct DB modifications
Requirements
- 3+ years in a backend engineering or data-focused engineering role
- Excellent SQL; proficiency in Python and SQL is non-negotiable
- Hands-on experience with relational databases, particularly Postgres
- Experience designing schemas and building data models that reflect real-world business logic
- Familiarity with DBT or similar data transformation frameworks
- Strong understanding of data validation, testing and quality assurance practices
- Manages all infrastructure through IaC tooling (Pulumi, AWS CDK), treating the database as code
- Grasps new business domains quickly, translating unfamiliar logic into clean, intuitive data models
- Bonus: ClickHouse or columnar databases; cloud-based data orchestration (Dagster, Step Functions); CI/CD for data pipelines and transformations; operating databases at scale in production
Benefits
- Competitive salary and eligibility for equity
- Biannual bonus scheme
- Fully expensed tech to match your needs
- Private health insurance
- Breakfast and dinner allowance for office-based employees
As we hire globally, benefits vary by location.
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