Onsite Senior DBA Engineer

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About the role

  • IT professional managing relational databases for a fintech company serving over 15 million users. Responsible for database integrity, performance, and collaboration with development teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, construct, install, and maintain large relational databases.
  • Maintain the integrity and security of the database, including backups and recovery procedures.
  • Implement and manage disaster recovery and failover systems.
  • Monitor database performance, implement changes, and apply new patches and versions when required.
  • Optimize queries for performance.
  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize database usage.
  • Set up and maintain database replication, clustering, mirroring, and other high availability strategies.
  • Use and understand tools like pgbouncer and modern monitoring systems.
  • Stay updated with the latest database technologies and best practices.

Requirements

  • Experience with PostgreSQL is mandatory.
  • Proficiency in PostgreSQL setup, replication, upgrade, monitoring and performance tuning.
  • Experience with Clickhouse is a plus.
  • Can read and write complex and very complex queries.
  • Experience with backup and recovery procedures, as well as PITR.
  • Strong knowledge of database design, documentation, and coding.
  • Familiarity with database management tools and performance tuning techniques.
  • Familiarity with programming/scripting languages like bash, Python, Go, etc.
  • Experience with DbaaS on cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS (would be a plus).
  • Certification in database management or equivalent training (would be a plus).
  • Experience in migrating large databases between cloud platforms.
  • Knowledge of the latest trends in database administration.
  • Familiarity with modern DevOps practices such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm.
  • Experience in real-time data streaming technologies such as Debezium/Flink.

Benefits

  • Work alongside a high-performing, international engineering team in a global fintech unicorn
  • Stock options (ESOP) in a fast-scaling, pre-IPO company
  • Health Insurance
  • Competitive salary and other bonuses

Job title

Senior DBA Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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