Principal Database Administrator, DBA

📋 Description

• Take charge of Database Reliability: Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies.

• Architect for Scale: Create and execute a roadmap for scalability.

• Enhance Performance: Conduct in-depth query optimization and proactively address bottlenecks.

• Design Infrastructure: Develop and oversee scalable inference and connection pooling strategies.

• Establish Observability: Create the monitoring framework and define SLIs/SLOs to ensure database health.

• Champion Security: Enforce banking-grade security measures.

• Collaborate Across Engineering: Partner with product teams to guarantee database support.

• Lead by Example: Elevate the technical standards for the DBA function through mentorship.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a PostgreSQL DBA in high-load, production environments (preferably within Fintech or critical systems).

• Advanced expertise in index design (B-tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN), partitioning, and vacuum tuning.

• Demonstrated experience in designing streaming replication, clustering, and validating automated backups.

• Practical experience with cloud-managed PostgreSQL (specifically on GCP) and Linux systems administration.

• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD processes (GitLab, ArgoCD).

• Skilled in complex queries, stored procedures, and functions.

• Experience in building monitoring and alerting systems for databases (Prometheus/Grafana).

• Fluent in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Make a genuine impact on our product.

• Join our growth journey and develop alongside us.

• Enjoy steadfast support and care.

• Finom is with you at every step of the way.

• Work within the EU.

• Enjoy the flexibility to travel and work remotely or in a hybrid model across Europe.

• Become a holder of stock options via our Stock Options Program.

• Participate in our exclusive Work & Swim Program in Cyprus.

• Experience our commitment to your well-being and success, reflected in our modern, friendly, and eco-conscious corporate culture.