We are looking for a Senior DBA - Reliability Engineer to join the Platform team. This role combines deep database administration expertise with SRE principles to ensure data infrastructure operates at scale with high availability and performance.
¿We welcome experienced DBAs who are eager to grow into SRE practices — full training and mentoring provided.
Own the design and maintenance of highly available database systems (99.9%+ uptime), including installation, configuration, monitoring, and optimization
Conduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning for production databases
Establish and monitor SLOs and SLIs for database systems
Partner with development teams on query optimization and performance reviews, acting as a reliability advocate embedded in engineering workflows
build self-service database provisioning tools
Champion database reliability and DevOps practices across engineering teams, mentoring developers on reliability principles
5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in production environments
~ Advanced SQL skills: complex queries, stored procedures, performance optimization, and execution plan analysis
~ PostgreSQL (required); MySQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis) are a plus
~ AWS cloud databases: RDS and Aurora (required)
~ Terraform for IaC (required)
~ Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (APM, logs, dashboards, alerting), OpenTelemetry
~ Python or Bash scripting for database automation; comfortable using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor)
~ Kubernetes and Docker knowledge (preferred)
~ Kafka or event streaming experience (preferred)
~ Experience with high-availability clusters, replication, and disaster recovery planning
~ Fluent in English; French or Spanish is a plus
~ Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Career plan €1,000/year for training
Private health insurance
Online language classes
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