Why Join dLocal?
dLocal is the financial infrastructure powering global commerce in the world's fastest-growing markets. The biggest companies in the world trust us to unlock growth in 60+ countries across emerging markets—moving money where others see complexity. We don't just process payments; we are architects of payment ecosystems and partners in our customers' expansion. You'll work alongside 1,300+ teammates from 40+ nationalities and tackle integral challenges from day one.

What’s the opportunity?

We are looking for a Cloud Architect focused on NoSQL and the AWS ecosystem to expand our team’s capabilities beyond MySQL/Aurora and accelerate our platform evolution at scale.

You will own critical database services in production, driving performance, reliability, automation, and cost efficiency across our cloud data layer.

What will I be doing?

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Own, operate, and optimize DynamoDB workloads in production, including data modeling, capacity strategy (provisioned/on‑demand), GSIs/LSIs, TTL, Streams, backup/restore, and multi‑region patterns.

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Design, deploy,



and maintain relational and not relational databases, including sharding, indexing strategies, backups, and performance tuning.

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Leverage AWS services across the data stack (e.g., S3, KMS, IAM, CloudWatch, DMS, Lambda) to build reliable, observable, and secure data solutions.

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Implement automation-as-code (CLI/SDK) for schema and capacity changes, operational tasks, and guardrails to reduce toil and error.

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Establish and improve observability for databases (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, SLOs/alerts) and lead performance/root‑cause investigations.

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Collaborate with engineers to design efficient data access patterns and guide migrations and schema evolution with minimal downtime.

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Contribute to reliability engineering practices (backups, DR, chaos/restore testing, incident reviews) across NoSQL platforms.

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Participate in an on‑call rotation and attend emergency escalations, including during

📌 Cloud Architect (San Paulo)
🏢 dLocal
📍 San Paulo