Senior DBA / Database Engineer
ESP Engineered
We are looking for a Senior DBA / Database Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and scalability of our data layer across multiple services.
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and optimize PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MongoDB, and key‑value stores.
- Ensure high availability, replication, backup/restore, and disaster recovery.
- Monitor and improve performance (p95/p99 latency, query efficiency, indexing).
- Analyze and optimize slow queries, schema design, and data access patterns.
- Manage capacity planning and scaling strategies (vertical and horizontal).
- Implement and maintain data consistency, integrity, and retention strategies.
- Support microservices architecture with distributed data patterns.
- Control and optimize costs of database usage.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on schema design, migrations, and data modeling (SQL and NoSQL).
- Ensure security, access control, and compliance.
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as DBA / Database Engineer.
- Strong expertise in PostgreSQL (indexes, MVCC, vacuum, replication, partitioning); MongoDB (replica sets, sharding, performance tuning); key‑value stores such as Redis, DynamoDB, or similar.
- Deep understanding of query optimization and execution plans; transactions and consistency models; indexing strategies.
- Experience with high‑load production systems.
- Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred).
- Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, etc.).
- Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices; event‑driven architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Knowledge of data caching strategies and CQRS/eventual‑consistency patterns.
- Experience with automation tools (Terraform, scripting) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS).
- Background in e‑commerce or high‑traffic platforms.
Benefits
- Collaborate with a worldwide team.
- Learning budgets and access to courses and tools for professional growth.
- Flexible time off with generous leave and wellness policies.
- Agile work culture with Scrum and other frameworks.
- Recognized as a Great Place to Work® (certification).
- ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certifications (quality and safety).
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