Senior Infrastructure Engineer (PostgreSQL DBA)

📋 Description

• Own day-to-day PostgreSQL operations across all production data centers: index creation on
• Partner with application teams on data-model decisions — design, partitioning, retention
• Operate and tune Aurora PostgreSQL: parameter groups, replicas, failover behavior, capacity
• Run and evolve our PgBouncer connection-pooling layer.
• Turn manual runbooks into released, repeatable automation: seamless upgrade, switchover
• Drive incident response and RCAs for database-related issues, and land the follow-up actions.

🎯 Requirements

• 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
• 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