Overview

In this role you will design, operate, and safeguard a high-availability, low-latency data platform built on PostgreSQL and MySQL. You will drive automation and IaC to provision and manage databases across on-prem and cloud environments, ensuring scalable performance and robust disaster recovery. You’ll lead optimization, monitoring, and capacity planning while mentoring teammates and maintaining clear runbooks. This position offers impact through reliable data services and a focus on engineering excellence within a cross-functional tech team.

Compensaciones / Incentivos

- Great career development opportunities
- Hybrid working model
- International Health Insurance
- Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
- Birthday Day Off
- Me Time - 1 day off per year

Responsabilidades

- Build and maintain high-availability PostgreSQL and MySQL systems (on-prem and RDS)
- Design and maintain provisioning, configuration, and deployment pipelines with Ansible and/or Terraform
- Configure and troubleshoot multi-region/multi-node replication (streaming and logical replication)
- Tune performance: queries, indexes, engine parameters, and schema design




- Execute backup, PITR, encryption, and DR exercises; ensure data security and integrity
- Monitor health and capacity, apply patches and upgrades as needed
- Document policies, standards, schemas, and runbooks with rigor
- Share knowledge, mentor junior/mid-level engineers, and promote engineering excellence
- Provide Tier 3 production support with on-call involvement as required

Requisitos principales

- 5+ years in production database engineering/administration
- Deep PostgreSQL and MySQL expertise (architecture, tuning, troubleshooting)
- Proven experience with Ansible and Terraform
- Hands-on HA solutions: Patroni, PgBouncer, Galera Cluster, or MySQL InnoDB Cluster/Group Replication
- Experience with low-latency, high-concurrency deployments
- PITR, backups (logical/physical), security hardening, and data integrity checks
- Bash/Shell/Python scripting; familiarity with DBA tools and monitoring suites

- leadership
- mentoring
- problem-solving
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Ansible

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