Own Database Reliability: Drive high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
Architect for Scale: Define and execute the scalability roadmap.
Optimize Performance: Perform deep-dive query optimization.
Design Infrastructure: Build and manage scalable inference and connection pooling strategies.
Establish Observability: Design the monitoring architecture and define SLIs/SLOs.
Champion Security: Implement banking-grade security practices.
Partner Across Engineering: Work with product teams to ensure database schema changes support a high-load environment.
Lead by Example: Set the technical bar for the DBA function through mentoring and hands-on implementation.

5+ years of experience as a PostgreSQL DBA in high-load, production environments (preferably Fintech or mission-critical systems).
Deep PostgreSQL Expertise: Advanced knowledge of index design (B-tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN), partitioning, and vacuum tuning.
HA/DR Mastery: Proven experience designing streaming replication, clustering, and automated backup validation.
Cloud Fluency: Hands-on experience with cloud-managed PostgreSQL (specifically GCP) and Linux systems administration.
Automation Mindset: Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD workflows (GitLab, ArgoCD).
Strong SQL Skills: Expertise in complex queries, stored procedures, and functions.
Observability Stack: Experience building monitoring and alerting for databases (Prometheus/Grafana).
Fluent in English.

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Principal Database Administrator, DBA

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