Overview
As Senior PostgreSQL DBA, you own the PostgreSQL estate end-to-end on AWS RDS/Aurora, setting the standard for performance, schema design, and reliability. You drive backup and disaster recovery, guarding data availability for a microservices-based platform serving 30,000+ retailers. You act as the go-to PostgreSQL expert for engineering teams, shaping strategy, tooling, and cost-efficiency as we scale. This is a hands-on, impactful role with cross-team influence.
Arbeidsvoorwaarden / Benefits
- 2,000 learning budget
- 28 days paid vacation
- sabbatical every 3 years
- flexible hybrid model (3+ days in office)
- company gym
- Free lunch Mondays
Verantwoordelijkheden
- Operate and optimize PostgreSQL clusters on AWS RDS/Aurora to prevent incidents and maintain predictable performance
- Analyse and tune complex queries, indexes, and schemas for scale
- Own backup and disaster-recovery strategy with regular restore testing and clear RTO/RPO targets
- Lead major-version upgrades and zero-downtime migrations in production environments
- Design scalable schemas for a microservices setup with partitioning, denormalisation, replication, and indexing
- Incorporate security into schema design with row-level security and least-privilege access
- Drive PostgreSQL enablement across engineering via playbooks, training, and hygiene guidelines
- Collaborate with Platform and Product Engineering to ensure data reliability, performance, and scalability
- Contribute to long-term PostgreSQL strategy including tooling, observability, and cost-efficiency
Belangrijkste vereisten
- 5+ years in database engineering/administration focused on PostgreSQL
- 4+ years in high-availability production environments
- 3+ years operating PostgreSQL on AWS (RDS/Aurora) with backups, replication, monitoring, and tuning
- 3+ years in cloud-native/SaaS environments with microservices
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals (planner, vacuuming, WAL, query plans) and経験 solving bottlenecks at scale
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and DevOps practices (Git, Terraform, CI/CD)
- Reading Python code with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django ORM
- Nice to have: experience with connection pooling (RDS Proxy) or contributions to open-source PostgreSQL tooling
- Ownership and initiative in identifying reliability and performance risks
- Clear communication of database trade-offs to non-DBA colleagues
- Ability to influence technical decisions across teams without formal authority
- PostgreSQL internals and performance tuning
- AWS RDS and Aurora deployments, backups, replication, monitoring
- Schema design for microservices, partitioning, denormalisation, indexing
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