About Air Apps

At Air Apps, we believe in thinking bigger—and moving faster. We’re a family‑founded company on a mission to create the world’s first AI‑powered Personal & Entrepreneurial Resource Planner (PRP), and we need your passion and ambition to help us change how people plan, work, and live. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 2018—and now with offices in both Lisbon and San Francisco—we’ve remained self‑funded while reaching over 100 million downloads worldwide.

The Role

As a Database Administrator (DBA) at Air Apps, you will be responsible for managing, optimizing, and securing large‑scale, complex databases. You will work with engineering teams to design, implement, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and resilient database systems that power our AI‑driven platform. Your role will involve database tuning, backup and recovery strategies, monitoring, and ensuring data integrity while working with structured and unstructured data sources.

This is a fully onsite position, based at our office in Lisbon. We are open to supporting relocation efforts.

Responsibilities




- Design, implement, and maintain high-performance database systems to support large-scale applications.
- Optimize database queries, indexing strategies, and partitioning to enhance performance.
- Monitor database health, ensuring high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery.
- Manage and fine‑tune SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB).
- Implement database security policies, encryption, and access control to protect sensitive data.
- Automate database backups, replication, and failover mechanisms.
- Work closely with developers to optimize queries, schema design, and data modeling.
- Perform capacity planning and monitor database growth trends.
- Ensure compliance with data governance, GDPR, and other regulatory requirements.
- Stay updated with the latest database technologies, trends, and best practices.

Requirements
- Around 4+ years of experienc

📌 Database Administrator (Barcelona)
🏢 Air Apps
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