Senior Payments DB Engineer — PostgreSQL/Oracle, Hybrid

Worldline; Biel; Hybrid; CHF 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mobile working

Remote work 25 days

Transport subsidy

Staff restaurant

Education programs

Family benefits

Innovation festival

Employee share program

Global culture

Job summary

Worldline in Switzerland is seeking a Senior Application Database Engineer to join our High Availability Frontoffice Platform. You will work with a dedicated team to migrate to PostgreSQL while maintaining Oracle, optimize performance, and collaborate with DevOps, SREs and external partners.

The role requires 5+ years of production database experience, strong PostgreSQL/Oracle skills, and a focus on security and uptime. Fluent English is required; French and German are a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in production databases (PostgreSQL/Oracle).
• Experience with queries, schemas, performance, execution plans and locks.
• Experience in incidents, root-cause analysis and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Support DevOps with database requests and standards.
• Lead migrations, incl. cloud migration to PostgreSQL, while maintaining Oracle.
• Collaborate with external partners and internal teams on database questions.
• Monitor performance, ensure zero-downtime, system compliance and vulnerability management.
• Work cross-functionally with other teams on common subjects.
• Participate in on-call duties to ensure database and application continuity.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Query optimization

Incident management

Monitoring

Cloud platforms

Security best practices

Documentation

English language

French language

German language

Job description

Worldline in Switzerland is seeking a Senior Application Database Engineer to join our High Availability Frontoffice Platform. You will work with a dedicated team to migrate to PostgreSQL while maintaining Oracle, optimize performance, and collaborate with DevOps, SREs and external partners.

The role requires 5+ years of production database experience, strong PostgreSQL/Oracle skills, and a focus on security and uptime. Fluent English is required; French and German are a plus.