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. The RoleAs 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. 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.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.
Around 4+ years of experience as a Database Administrator (DBA) or similar role.
Expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and/or NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
Strong knowledge of database optimization, indexing, partitioning, and replication.
Experience in performance tuning, query optimization, and troubleshooting slow queries.

📌 Database Administrator (Madrid)
🏢 Air Apps
📍 Madrid