Senior Infrastructure Engineer (PostgreSQL DBA)

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As our PostgreSQL DBA you will be the go-to engineer for everything data-layer: index and schema design on multi-terabyte tables query optimization for application teams connection pooling upgrades and migrations. Our PostgreSQL runs on Amazon Aurora operating a large fast-growing fleet consistently: turning one-off procedures into reliable automation keeping dozens of clusters healthy at once and helping developers use the database well. Youll split your time between a support rotation for incoming developer requests and longer-cycle reliability and automation projects.

In this role you will also be responsible to:

• Own day-to-day PostgreSQL operations across all production data centers: index creation on large/partitioned tables query-plan analysis schema reviews data migrations.

• Partner with application teams on data-model decisions design partitioning retention consolidation vs. standalone clusters and push back with data when a design wont scale.

• Operate and tune Aurora PostgreSQL: parameter groups replicas failover behavior capacity planning.

• Run and evolve our PgBouncer connection-pooling layer.

• Turn manual runbooks into released repeatable automation: seamless upgrade switchover database/user provisioning grants management (Terraform Ansible).

• Drive incident response and RCAs for database-related issues and land the follow-up actions.

• Maintain and improve database observability (postgresexporter VictoriaMetrics dashboards and alerts).

• Take part in the teams duty rotation handling developer requests with protected focus time off-duty.

• 5 years of hands-on operational PostgreSQL experience (DBA / database reliability role).

• Strong command of query plans indexing strategy and performance work on multi-TB tables.

• Production experience with managed PostgreSQL (Aurora or RDS) and a clear-eyed view of its constraints.

• Working proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code practices; comfortable in Linux.

• Experience with connection pooling (PgBouncer or similar) in production.

• Practical experience with logical replication major-version upgrades and low-downtime migration techniques.

• Scripting ability (Bash Python or GO) and an automation-first mindset.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred); strong incident-management and RCA skills.

• Operational exposure to ClickHouse OpenSearch or Redis/Valkey Neo4j.

• Kubernetes fundamentals (our poolers proxies and exporters run on EKS).

• Experience with Vault ArgoCD or GitOps workflows.

• Comfort using AI coding assistants to accelerate routine analysis and tooling.

• AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Kubernetes PgBouncer Terraform Ansible VictoriaMetrics Vault Linux

(REQ ID: 2960)