[Hiring] Database Developer / DBA @FYST

Role Description

We are looking for a Database Developer / DBA to join our team. You will be responsible for making our data infrastructure reliable and helping it grow. We need someone who has strong technical opinions and knows how to build resilient, high-performance database systems. This role is perfect for someone who prefers working with a focused, high-impact data environment rather than managing a massive amount of data sprawl.

What You'll Be Working On

• Collaborative Infrastructure Design: Work closely with the DevOps team to suggest and design solutions for our infrastructure, providing architectural vision while collaborating on implementation.
• High Availability: Design and maintain replication, failover, and clustering to ensure systems are always running and fault-tolerant.
• Backups & Disaster Recovery: Design and test backup strategies to ensure quick data restoration with minimal downtime.
• Observability & Monitoring: Use tools like Prometheus and Grafana to monitor system health and set up alerts for issues.
• Zero-Downtime Maintenance: Handle routine tasks like patching and vacuuming using blue-green update techniques to avoid service interruptions.
• Automation: Utilize Ansible and Terraform to enhance infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Architecture & Design: Lead planning of database systems and provide insights on schema design for better performance.
• Performance Engineering: Identify performance problems and tune queries and indexes based on system usage.
• Development Support: Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize queries and plan safe database migrations.
• Security & Access Management: Manage database security, encryption, and data access rules.
• Incident Response: Assist in identifying root causes of database problems and document systems and recovery steps.

Qualifications

• PostgreSQL Expertise: 4+ years of hands-on experience managing production environments at a terabyte scale, such as a fleet of up to 100 instances.
• Technical Conviction: Proven ability to recommend and advocate for optimal database setups and high-availability systems.
• Cloud Proficiency: Experience managing databases in major cloud environments (like AWS, Azure, or GCP) or private/VPS setups. Knowledge in Amazon Aurora, NoSQL, Columnar DBs, and/or Timeseries is a plus.
• Automation Mindset: Strong background in scripting and automation to efficiently manage production environments.
• AI: Ability to use AI tools to assist with coding or monitoring is a great advantage.

Benefits

• An opportunity to make something great even greater, contributing to the growth and development of the best fintech company on the market.
• Career prospects - we are young with huge ambitions, and it is important that our employees grow with us.
• Work with coworkers who are passionate about their business.
• Compensation that fully corresponds to competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews.
• Opportunity to attend conferences, courses, and professional development at the company's expense - we favor continuous development of our employees.
• Remote work.
• 20 days of vacation time; Bank holidays; Sick leaves; Additional birthday day off.