Database Reliability Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

The Evidence and Devices Engineering team is responsible for Motorola Solutions’ body cameras, vehicle cameras and evidence management software leveraged in public safety and enterprise applications worldwide.

We are a thriving and growing company in search of a Software Engineer to join our evidence management team in Krakow, this is Hybrid role. This full-time position offers the opportunity to play a significant role in the development and growth of our software engineering projects. We are seeking a talented and proactive individual who can contribute to our team’s success and foster a spirit of collaboration within the company.

Job Description

We are looking for a Database Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team. Your job is to make sure our databases are stable, fast, and recoverable.The ideal candidate is someone who treats operations as a software engineering problem. You will act as a subject matter expert on database performance and liaise with our core software development teams to deliver advice on best practices and performance.

You will will work directly with our developers to catch bad queries or schema issues before they hit production.

Basic Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Performance Engineering: Analyze database performance, troubleshoot high-latency queries, and assist development teams with schema design and query optimization.

• Reliability & Availability: Maintain high availability and reliability of database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra) to meet defined Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

• Observability: Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding solutions (using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog) to proactively identify issues before they impact users.

• Disaster Recovery: Design and test backup strategies, failover mechanisms, migrations and disaster recovery plans to ensure data integrity.

• Incident Response: Participate in an on-call rotation to troubleshoot and resolve production database incidents, followed by post-mortems to prevent recurrence.

​In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your work, you’ll get the following:

• Contract of Employment (UoP)

• IP Tax Relief (up to 40%)

• Private medical coverage, Multisport

• Life insurance (two annual incomes), 

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan – 15% discount for buying Motorola’s Stock units, 

• Employee Pension Plan – 3,5 % of the month’s salary gross, which goes to the retirement account

• Yearly salary increase (depends on individual performance)

• Yearly bonus (depends on company performance)

• Flexible working hours (usually the day starts between 7-10)

• 8 hours working day (30 minutes lunch break included)

• Hybrid work (once per week from the KRK office)

Travel Requirements

Under 10%

Relocation Provided

Domestic

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

Company

Motorola Solutions Systems Polska Sp.z.o.o

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.