Principal Database Administrator – DBA

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of Database Reliability: Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies to ensure that RPO/RTO targets are achieved for our core banking systems.

• Architect for Scalability: Define and implement the scalability roadmap, which includes partitioning, sharding strategies, and capacity forecasting.

• Enhance Performance: Conduct in-depth query optimization, analyze execution plans, and proactively address performance bottlenecks.

• Design Infrastructure: Develop and manage scalable inference and connection pooling strategies (PgBouncer) alongside robust backup and restoration automation.

• Establish Observability: Create a monitoring architecture (Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics) and define SLIs/SLOs to ensure database health.

• Advocate for Security: Enforce banking-grade security practices, including credential management and compliance-focused data handling.

• Collaborate Across Engineering: Partner with product teams to ensure that database schema modifications and architectural decisions are conducive to a high-load environment.

• Lead by Example: Elevate the technical standards for the DBA function through mentoring, establishing standards, and hands-on implementation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience as a PostgreSQL DBA in high-load, production environments, ideally within Fintech or mission-critical systems.

• Extensive PostgreSQL Knowledge: Advanced understanding of index design (B-tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN), partitioning, and vacuum tuning.

• Expertise in HA/DR: Demonstrated experience in designing streaming replication, clustering, and automated backup validation.

• Cloud Proficiency: Practical experience with cloud-managed PostgreSQL (particularly GCP) and Linux systems administration.

• Automation Orientation: Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD processes (GitLab, ArgoCD).

• Strong SQL Abilities: Proficiency in complex queries, stored procedures, and functions.

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

• Proficient in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Make a meaningful impact on the product.

• Join our upward trajectory and grow with us. We provide resources and opportunities for ongoing personal and professional development, enabling you to make a significant impact on our evolving product.

• Work in the EU.

• Embark on this exciting journey with us and enjoy the flexibility of working remotely or in a hybrid model across Europe.

• Become a stock options holder.

• Unleash your entrepreneurial spirit and align your goals with ours through our Stock Options Program, available to every team member, from junior members to our founders.

• Receive unwavering support and care.

• Finom is dedicated to supporting you at every stage, showcasing our commitment to your well-being and success, manifested in our modern, friendly, and eco-conscious corporate culture. We offer ongoing support to ensure your Finom experience is both successful and fulfilling.

• Work & Swim program.

• Immerse yourself in our exclusive Work & Swim Program. Spend one month in a comfortable corporate apartment in beautiful Cyprus, the perfect opportunity to achieve an ideal work-life balance while enjoying stunning Mediterranean views.