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Senior PostgreSQL DBA (AWS / RDS)
SendCloud · Eindhoven
About the role
📍Eindhoven (1 day in office) | 🗓️ 40hrs per week
What you will do
As the Senior PostgreSQL DBA, own our PostgreSQL estate technically and operationally, from AWS RDS and Aurora clusters to the schemas running on top of them.
Set the technical bar for query performance, indexing, and schema design across a microservices environment serving 30,000+ retailers.
Own our backup and disaster-recovery strategy end to end, including restore testing and clear RTO/RPO targets.
Act as the trusted PostgreSQL advisor for backend and platform engineers, raising database hygiene across every feature team.
Shape our long-term PostgreSQL strategy — tooling, observability, and cost-efficiency — as we continue to scale.
What you will do
Operate and improve PostgreSQL clusters running on AWS RDS and Aurora, tuning performance and resolving bottlenecks before they become incidents.
Analyse and optimise complex queries, indexes, and schemas to keep performance predictable as traffic scales.
Own backup and disaster-recovery strategy, including regular restore testing and clear RTO/RPO targets.
Lead PostgreSQL major-version upgrades and zero-downtime schema migrations on systems that can't afford downtime.
Design scalable PostgreSQL schemas for a microservices environment, guiding decisions on partitioning, denormalisation, replication, and indexing.
Build security into schema design, including row-level security policies and least-privilege access for sensitive tables.
Drive PostgreSQL enablement across engineering — training, playbooks, and 'DB Hygiene 101' guidelines that raise the bar for every team.
Work with our Platform and Product Engineering teams to ensure data reliability, performance, and scalability
Contribute to our long-term PostgreSQL strategy, including tooling, observability, and cost-efficiency