Database Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Argentina.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and manage both MongoDB Atlas and non-Atlas environments, ensuring they are highly available, scalable, and secure.

• Create and enforce strategies for resilience and disaster recovery, encompassing backup, restoration, and multi-region failover.

• Enhance database performance and query execution to assist application development teams throughout all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Develop and oversee infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and GitOps for database provisioning and automation.

• Implement and improve observability and monitoring solutions utilizing Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and MongoDB's native telemetry.

• Manage access control, auditing, and encryption to ensure compliance with enterprise security standards.

• Work closely with application, DevOps, and platform teams to consistently enhance reliability, performance, and operational excellence.

• Lead the response to database-related incidents, conduct root cause analyses, and implement corrective and preventive actions.

• Mentor and guide technical teams, contributing to documentation, standards, and design reviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years' experience as a MongoDB Database Administrator (DBA), including at least 4 years of administering MongoDB Atlas.

• Strong familiarity with the AWS ecosystem (EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, VPC, Lambda).

• Expertise in Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and containerized workloads (EKS/Kubernetes).

• Experience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, or similar tools.

• Strong skills in Linux administration and scripting (Python, Bash).

• Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation abilities.

• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

• Travel requirement: Less than 10%.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Supportive and inclusive company culture.