Yopeso

Senior Database Administrator, PostgreSQL

Yopeso

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇲🇩 Moldova

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSErlangGrafanaPostgresPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Perform database monitoring, performance tuning, and optimization of PostgreSQL databases
  • Execute version upgrades, patching, and schema changes
  • Manage data migrations across environments and ensure data consistency
  • Work with large datasets (terabytes of data) and optimize for high availability and scalability
  • Ensure database security, backup, and recovery processes are in place and reliable
  • Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to support business requirements
  • Automate routine database administration tasks where possible

Requirements

  • Proven experience in PostgreSQL administration (installation, configuration, tuning, and troubleshooting)
  • Strong understanding of database performance optimization and query tuning
  • Experience managing large-scale databases with high transaction volumes
  • Solid knowledge of backup and recovery, replication, and disaster recovery planning
  • Nice to Have: Experience with AWS database services (RDS, Aurora)
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
  • Exposure to database monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, pgAdmin, Datadog)
  • Scripting experience (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation
  • Any Erlang knowledge would be highly appreciated
Benefits
  • Competitive remuneration
  • Remote work
  • Sports/leisure benefit
  • 20 sick leave days paid at 100%
  • 32 calendar days of vacation
  • Team events, online, at the office or outside
  • Professional development plan with guidance and mentorship
  • Training and development opportunities with allocated budget
  • Professional Certifications
  • Optional medical insurance

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
PostgreSQL administrationdatabase performance optimizationquery tuningbackup and recoveryreplicationdisaster recovery planningscriptingautomationErlang
Soft skills
collaboration