We’re looking for a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer to join our team.

Our client a leading European AI company developing large language models and generative platforms for enterprise and government clients.
Our products combine high-performance technologies, transparency, accessibility, and data security, fully aligned with European regulatory and ethical standards.

As a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer, you will take ownership of PostgreSQL architecture, tuning, operations, and maintenance across business-critical systems.
This role is designed to be covered by 1–2 FTE split across several senior specialists, ensuring continuity of PostgreSQL operations and full coverage during planned and unplanned absences as we take over end-to-end PostgreSQL responsibility.

Responsibilities:

Take ownership of PostgreSQL architecture, tuning, and long-term maintenance
Lead PostgreSQL operations as systems transition under internal ownership
Ensure database availability, reliability, and performance in production environments
Design and maintain high-availability, replication, backup, and recovery strategies
Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve PostgreSQL issues
Perform query optimization, indexing strategies, and configuration tuning
Plan and execute upgrades, migrations, and maintenance activities
Ensure data security, integrity, and compliance with internal and regulatory standards
Collaborate closely with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams
Maintain clear operational documentation to support shared ownership across multiple FTEs
Participate in support / on-call rotation as required to ensure operational continuity

Requirements:

5+ years of commercial experience with PostgreSQL
Experience with PostgreSQL, including: performance tuning, database architecture, operations and maintenance in production
Proven experience managing PostgreSQL in mission-critical environments
Strong expertise in backup, restore, replication, and high-availability setups
Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL troubleshooting and incident resolution
Ability to independently own and operate PostgreSQL systems
Comfortable working in a shared-responsibility model (1–2 FTE split across multiple specialists)
Strong communication skills and experience working with cross-functional engineering teams
Solid Linux fundamentals
Upper-Intermediate level of English

Nice to have:

Experience operating PostgreSQL at scale (large datasets, high throughput)
Familiarity with cloud-based PostgreSQL solutions
Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools
Automation and Infrastructure as Code experience
Background in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps
Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments

Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer

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