Senior DB Platform Engineer - PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Databricks

Skanai; Canada; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Skan AI in Canada seeks a Senior Database Administrator to own the health, performance, and reliability of large-scale data environments across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Databricks. This highly technical role focuses on platform engineering, monitoring, and cost-efficient operation.

The ideal candidate will configure and optimize databases, design HA/DR strategies, and collaborate with analytics and engineering teams to enable scalable, data-driven decisions at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• Senior-level depth in PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Databricks.
• Experience scaling data environments for very large data volumes.
• Strong tuning of configuration, indexing, and query performance.
• Experience with HA and disaster-recovery solutions for high-volume databases.
• Monitoring, observability, and capacity planning in production.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and optimize PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Databricks environments for large data volumes.
• Design and implement monitoring, dashboards, and alerting to surface issues early.
• Scale environments vertically and horizontally with autoscaling, sharding, and partitioning.
• Manage Databricks clusters, workloads, and Delta Lake layouts for efficient processing.
• Troubleshoot production data issues and participate in incident response and on-call rotations.
• Plan capacity upgrades and routine maintenance with minimal disruption.

Skills

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Databricks

SQL

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Delta Lake

Job description

Skan AI in Canada seeks a Senior Database Administrator to own the health, performance, and reliability of large-scale data environments across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Databricks. This highly technical role focuses on platform engineering, monitoring, and cost-efficient operation.

The ideal candidate will configure and optimize databases, design HA/DR strategies, and collaborate with analytics and engineering teams to enable scalable, data-driven decisions at enterprise scale.