Database Administrator

📋 Description

• Design, operate, optimize, and scale production database systems across SQL and NoSQL environments.
• Debug and prevent complex concurrency issues, including deadlocks, lock contention, starvation, and
• Advise application teams on safe database access patterns, including idempotency, retries, backoff
• Develop a deep understanding of database storage and replication internals, including B-trees, LSM
• Design and implement database backup, restore, upgrade, migration, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Analyze query planner behavior, statistics, cardinality estimation, and query performance

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience with strong hands-on database engineering
• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL and strong understanding of at least one additional SQL or NoSQL
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, including CAP, replication, consistency, failure
• Deep understanding of transactions, isolation levels, MVCC, locking, concurrency, storage engines
• Strong proficiency in Python, with experience building production-grade automation, diagnostics
• Hands-on experience operating, troubleshooting, tuning, and scaling production databases.

🎁 Benefits

• Experience with multi-region databases, global tables, and cross-region failover.
• Familiarity with AWS, production support, and on-call environments.
• Understanding of networking concepts such as VPCs, subnets, security groups, CIDR, and peering.
• Experience with Kubernetes or self-managed database infrastructure.
• Experience building internal database platforms, self-service tooling, policy-as-code, or safe