Database Administrator

Summary

Join our global Bridge team as a Database Administrator and take the lead in managing our databases in a complex SaaS cloud environment. Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure high availability and performance. Work in an empowered environment where you will play an important role in solving interesting problems. Be part of a highly experienced US-based infrastructure engineering team using lean product development. Make decisions, iterate, and learn, improving the infrastructure and the product. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive healthcare, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Requirements

• You have 3+ years experience in database administration or in a similar role
• Experienced in database backup, disaster recovery planning, advanced performance optimization and data security
• Knowledge of database management tools
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to provide quick solutions to issues
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills to work in a cross team environment
• Knowledge/Experience working with AWS RDS (Postgres and MySQL) and Aurora, also AWS NoSQL Databases
• Experience with modern Data Platforms, Data Lake and ETL
• Knowledge of IT security best practices
• Ability to use a scripting language (like Python) with AWS CLI or Lambda to automate database administration tasks within AWS
• Proficiency with database monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to manage and provision database resources

Responsibilities

• Setting up and maintaining the DB environment, including new DB deployments, existing DB upgrades and routine maintenance in a low-downtime methodology
• Rightsizing and managing the DB infrastructure for cost optimization
• Monitoring performance, suggesting improvements, evaluating changes to data consumers
• Collaborate with engineering teams on database schema design and architectural decisions for new features and services
• Act as a subject matter expert and provide guidance to software engineers on best practices for database interaction and performance
• Design and implement automation scripts and tools to streamline routine DBA tasks, deployments, and maintenance
• Recommend database management best practices
• Author and execute disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure database availability during system outages or dysfunction
• Analyze internal database setup (schema/table/etc) and suggest improvements, and implement suggested changes
• Planning for future growth, high availability, and performance

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with or understanding of graph and vector databases is a plus

Benefits

• Healthy work-life balance: We have an awesome office at Allee Corner Centre where you are welcome and we also maintain team office days from a team health perspective, but there is no mandate to get to work in a hybrid fashion. Our employees enjoy the freedom to manage their working hours
• Personal growth: We want to bring out the best in you through several things, learning days, quarterly hack weeks, mentorship, career development plan, and training opportunities from the first day
• Financial stability: We offer you a competitive salary package (1.4 - 1.8M HUF gross / month depending on your seniority), a bonus (based on the performance of the company), a comprehensive healthcare package provided by Medicover, a SZÉP card with extra sport bucket, and other fringe benefits