Remote Senior Database Engineer
at Adjust

Summary

Join our dynamic Engineering department as a Senior PostgreSQL DBA, where you will ensure existing database applications continue to work at any scale from Terabytes to Petabytes. As part of our Database Team, you will be involved in every aspect of the platform, including providing PostgreSQL as a service, high availability setups, PostgreSQL extensions development, automation development, optimizations, and analytics reporting software.

Requirements

• Proven experience as Administrator of heavily-loaded PostgreSQL databases
• Good understanding and experience in C
• Knowledge or willingness to learn Go
• Knowledge of any automation tools (we use Ansible)
• Solid research skills
• Experience with distributed environments

Responsibilities

• Improve and optimize our architecture and suggest improvements to current processes and structures
• Troubleshoot PostgreSQL issues and propose/implement fixes
• Advice our development teams on database best practices
• PostgreSQL setup and tuning on a very high transaction rate and distributed environment containing PetaBytes of data
• PostgreSQL custom extensions building and maintenance (C, SQL, PL/pgsql)
• Maintain and develop data pipelines (C, SQL, PL/pgsql) or support other teams doing so
• General maintenance tasks, operation monitoring and incident management
• Writing queries and optimizing existing ones

Benefits

• Opportunity to make an impact on the ad-tech industry working for a forward-thinking leader in the space
• International, diverse teams with a strong focus on transparency, feedback and fun
• Education opportunities for ongoing professional development & continuous learning
• Company onboarding program where you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of our product with your fellow newbies
• Flexible workplace policy, allowing you to work either from home or our office space
• Generous vacation policy with flexible vacation days
• Childcare program (Berlin only), paid parental leave
• Additional private health insurance
• Company Pension Plan with 40% employer contribution
• English & German classes to enhance your collaboration with global colleagues and friends
• Discounted Gym Membership with Urban Sports Club
• Free annual BVG transportation ticket
• Wellbeing support with qualified therapists
• WFH program with remote online events (Coffee chats, team events, games, etc.)