Database Administrator (DBA) (Remote)

Own Database Reliability: Drive high availability and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring RPO/RTO targets are met for our core banking systems.

Architect for Scale: Define and execute the scalability roadmap, including partitioning, sharding strategies, and capacity forecasting.

Optimize Performance: Perform deep-dive query optimization, execution plan analysis, and proactive bottleneck remediation.

Design Infrastructure: Build and manage scalable inference and connection pooling strategies (PgBouncer) and robust backup/restore automations.

Establish Observability: Design the monitoring architecture (Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics) and define SLIs/SLOs for database health.

Champion Security: Implement banking-grade security practices, including credential management and compliance-aligned data handling.

Partner Across Engineering: Work with product teams to ensure database schema changes and architectural decisions support a high-load environment.

Lead by Example: Set the technical bar for the DBA function through mentoring, standards definition, and hands-on implementation.

Technical Authority: You possess a deep, "under-the-hood" understanding of PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, WAL, vacuum, etc.)

Reliability-First: You understand that in fintech, data integrity and availability are non-negotiable.

Pragmatic Architect: You can turn complex business requirements into robust, scalable data models.

Autonomous Leader: You are comfortable taking full ownership of the database landscape without heavy supervision.

Clear Communicator: You can explain complex architectural trade-offs to both engineers and stakeholders.

5+ years of experience as a PostgreSQL DBA in high-load, production environments (preferably Fintech or mission-critical systems).

Deep PostgreSQL Expertise: Advanced knowledge of index design (B-tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN), partitioning, and vacuum tuning.

HA/DR Mastery: Proven experience designing streaming replication, clustering, and automated backup validation.

Cloud Fluency: Hands-on experience with cloud-managed PostgreSQL (specifically GCP) and Linux systems administration.

Automation Mindset: Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD workflows (GitLab, ArgoCD).

Strong SQL Skills: Expertise in complex queries, stored procedures, and functions.

Observability Stack: Experience building monitoring and alerting for databases (Prometheus/Grafana).

Fluent English

Compliance Experience: Working within frameworks like PCI DSS or GDPR.

Multi-Stack Experience: Familiarity with Redis, BigQuery, or additional data systems (Cassandra, ClickHouse).

Advanced Tooling: Experience with various connection pooling tools beyond PgBouncer.

Security Pro: Deep knowledge of secure secrets and credential management practices.