Senior PostgreSQL DBA (AWS / RDS)

🧐 The Role

• 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'll 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

🎉 Benefits

🧠 Brain Benefits — €2,000 learning budget · Courses, certifications & conferences · Growth in an international team

🌴 Time Benefits — 28 days of paid vacations per year · Extra day off on your birthday · Swap public holidays for meaningful ones

✈️ Sabbatical Benefits — 4 weeks fully paid every 3 years

🏡 Home Benefits — Flexible hybrid model (3+ days/week in office) · €500 home office budget

💪 Body Benefits — Company gym · Free lunch every Monday · Fresh fruit · Barista coffee

🚌 Travel Benefits — Monthly commuting allowance

🪑 Future Benefits — Pension scheme · Employee discount programs

🐾 Vibe Benefits — Dog-friendly office · After-hours drinks at the Sendcloud Bar