Lead Database Administrator

Our client is the world’s largest people-powered marketplace, connecting over 14 million users across 140+ countries to move, save, and store money – even without a bank account.
Founded in 2015 and based in the United States, offers safe, fast, and reliable access to the global economy through cryptocurrencies bought and sold on a borderless peer-to-peer payment network.
With over 500 payment methods for accessing Bitcoin, USDT, and other popular digital and local currencies, company is building a financial system connecting the world’s 5 billion underbanked to global opportunity.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in administering and tuning Amazon RDS
• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL replication techniques, data warehouse design, and performance troubleshooting
• Proven experience with high availability and disaster recovery techniques
• Experience with database management in the microservice architecture
• Proven experience with automation tools based on Ansible/Terraform/scripts to manage databases and migrations

Nice to have:
 

• Past experience with other database technologies such as No SQL database systems is a plus
• Experience with MongoDB and/or Kafka
• Experience with the CI/CD solutions
• Experience with ETL processes, data pipelines and data integration through APIs, Airflow etc
• Experience or interest in cryptocurrency, blockchain and/or financial technology

Responsibilities:
 

• Work closely with the BI team and help maintain and develop more metrics insights
• Continuously evaluate and improve monitoring practices, introducing enhancements that boost platform scalability, reliability, and performance
• Develop and proactively review the monitoring of PostgreSQL database production
• Participate in database design and data modeling and provide recommendations for improvement or optimizations
• Provide query/index optimizations
• Ensure database availability and performance
• Mentor other engineers in developing efficient SQL queries
• Prepare automation related to database deployment and migrations
• Assist in developing data migrations
• Optimize AWS RDS and help reduce cost

What we offer:

• Remote working format
• Flexible working hours
• Informal and friendly atmosphere
• The ability to focus on your work: a lack of bureaucracy and micromanagement
• 20 paid vacation days
• 7 paid sick leaves
• Education reimbursement
• Free English classes
• Psychologist consultations