Senior Infrastructure Engineer (PostgreSQL DBA)

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on operational PostgreSQL experience (DBA / database reliability role)
  • Strong command of query plans, indexing strategy, and performance work on multi-TB tables
  • Production experience with managed PostgreSQL (Aurora or RDS) and a clear-eyed view of its constraints
  • Working proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code practices; comfortable in Linux
  • Experience with connection pooling (PgBouncer or similar) in production
  • Practical experience with logical replication, major-version upgrades, and low-downtime migration techniques
  • Scripting ability (Bash, Python or GO) and an automation-first mindset
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred); strong incident-management and RCA skills

Nice to Haves

  • Operational exposure to ClickHouse, OpenSearch, or Redis/Valkey, Neo4j
  • Kubernetes fundamentals (our poolers, proxies, and exporters run on EKS)
  • Experience with Vault, ArgoCD, or GitOps workflows
  • Comfort using AI coding assistants to accelerate routine analysis and tooling

What You'll Be Doing

  • 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 off-duty

Perks and Benefits

  • Flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles
  • Innovation-driven environment looking for team players actively building the company
  • Vibrant and dynamic work environment with a multitude of benefits both inside and outside of work lives
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