Rivac LabsDatabase Reliability Engineer
The database is usually the single hardest part of a system to make highly available, because failover, replication lag, and backup restoration all have to work correctly under the exact conditions you hope never happen. We build replication topologies, automated failover, point-in-time backup strategies, and zero-downtime migration paths so your database keeps serving traffic through hardware failures, region outages, and schema changes. This matters for any system where database downtime directly costs revenue or breaks customer trust. You get a database layer whose failover has actually been tested, not one that's assumed to work because the docs say it should.
How We’d Approach This
A clear, staged plan — not a black box
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Assess current replication, backup, and failover setup against your actual availability requirements.
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Build and test a failover or backup-restore scenario in a staging environment that mirrors production.
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Review the tested failure scenario with your team, including recovery time and data-loss window.
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Implement the reliability architecture in production with regular failover drills scheduled going forward.
What You Get
Deliverables from this engagement
- Configured replication and automated failover setup
- Tested point-in-time backup and restore process
- Zero-downtime migration playbook
- Documented recovery time and recovery point objectives
Six Ways We Could Architect This
Different engagement, different build — pick the shape that fits
There’s more than one way to deliver on this service. Browse a few of the ways we’d structure the work, depending on your speed, budget, and integration needs.
Ready to get started?
Tell us what you’re trying to get done and we’ll help you find the highest-leverage place to start — scoped small enough to prove itself before you commit to anything bigger.
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