We are hiring a Senior PostgreSQL DBA to join our Infrastructure Storage team and own the health, performance, and day-to-day operations of the database fleet behind Workato's enterprise automation platform. You will work across dozens of Aurora PostgreSQL clusters in production data centers worldwide – a fleet that is about to double – as part of a small, adaptable team of infrastructure specialists.

Role Overview

As our PostgreSQL DBA, you will be the go-to engineer for everything data-layer: index and schema design on multi-terabyte tables, query optimization for application teams, connection pooling, upgrades, and migrations. Our PostgreSQL runs on Amazon Aurora — operating a large, fast-growing fleet consistently: turning one-off procedures into reliable automation, keeping dozens of clusters healthy at once, and helping developers use the database well. You'll split your time between a support rotation for incoming developer requests and longer-cycle reliability and automation projects.

Responsibilities




- Own day-to-day PostgreSQL operations across all production data centers: index creation on large/partitioned tables, query-plan analysis, schema reviews, data migrations.
- Partner with application teams on data-model decisions — design, partitioning, retention, consolidation vs. standalone clusters — and push back with data when a design won't scale.
- Operate and tune Aurora PostgreSQL: parameter groups, replicas, failover behavior, capacity planning.
- Run and evolve our PgBouncer connection-pooling layer.
- Turn manual runbooks into released, repeatable automation: seamless upgrade, switchover, database/user provisioning, grants management (Terraform + Ansible).
- Drive incident response and RCAs for database-related issues, and land the follow-up actions.
- Maintain and improve database observability (postgres_exporter, VictoriaMetrics dashboards and alerts).
- Take part in the team's duty rotation handling developer requests, with protected focus time

📌 Senior PostgreSQL DBA (Barcelona)
🏢 Workato
📍 Barcelona