Database Administrator

📋 Description Design, operate, optimize, and scale production database systems across SQL and NoSQL environments. Debug and prevent complex concurrency issues, including deadlocks, lock contention, starvation, and Advise application teams on safe database access patterns, including idempotency, retries, backoff Develop a deep understanding of database storage and replication internals, including B-trees, LSM Design and implement database backup, restore, upgrade, migration, and disaster recovery strategies. Analyze query planner behavior, statistics, cardinality estimation, and query performance 🎯 Requirements 3+ years of relevant engineering experience with strong hands-on database engineering Deep expertise in PostgreSQL and strong understanding of at least one additional SQL or NoSQL Strong foundation in distributed systems, including CAP, replication, consistency, failure Deep understanding of transactions, isolation levels, MVCC, locking, concurrency, storage engines Strong proficiency in Python, with experience building production-grade automation, diagnostics Hands-on experience operating, troubleshooting, tuning, and scaling production databases. 🎁 Benefits Experience with multi-region databases, global tables, and cross-region failover. Familiarity with AWS, production support, and on-call environments. Understanding of networking concepts such as VPCs, subnets, security groups, CIDR, and peering. Experience with Kubernetes or self-managed database infrastructure. Experience building internal database platforms, self-service tooling, policy-as-code, or safe