Senior Database Engineer: HA, Automation & Low-Latency (Hybrid)

Gaming Innovation Group; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Great career development opportunities

Hybrid working model

International Health Insurance

Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR)

Descripción de la vacante

Gaming Innovation Group in Madrid seeks a Senior Database Engineer to own and optimize our PostgreSQL and MySQL databases. You will drive high availability, replication, backup, and automation with Ansible and Terraform, ensuring ultra-low latency for critical applications.

You will lead capacity planning, monitoring, and production support, mentoring junior engineers and shaping data infrastructure standards across on-prem and cloud environments.

Formación

• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Engineer or Database Administrator in production environments.
• Deep proficiency in PostgreSQL and MySQL open-source engines, including tuning and troubleshooting.
• Automation & IaC experience with Ansible and Terraform for provisioning and config management.
• Database HA experience with Patroni, PgBouncer, Galera Cluster, or MySQL InnoDB Cluster/Group Replication.
• Track record of managing latency-sensitive, high-concurrency deployments.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash and Python, plus familiarity with DBA tooling.

Responsabilidades

• Architect, implement, and maintain high-availability PostgreSQL and MySQL deployments (on-prem and cloud).
• Design and manage automated provisioning and deployment pipelines using Ansible and Terraform.
• Configure multi-region replication and data synchronization.
• Tune queries, indexes, and engine parameters for low-latency performance.
• Implement backup, PITR, encryption, and DR strategies; enforce data integrity.
• Monitor systems, plan capacity, and apply updates and security patches.
• Document standards, runbooks, and policies; mentor junior staff.
• Provide Tier 3 production support and participate in 24x7 on-call when needed.

Conocimientos

PostgreSQL

MySQL

PITR

Bash

Python

High Availability

Replication

Latency optimization

Monitoring

Herramientas

Ansible

Terraform

DB monitoring

Descripción del empleo

Gaming Innovation Group in Madrid seeks a Senior Database Engineer to own and optimize our PostgreSQL and MySQL databases. You will drive high availability, replication, backup, and automation with Ansible and Terraform, ensuring ultra-low latency for critical applications.

You will lead capacity planning, monitoring, and production support, mentoring junior engineers and shaping data infrastructure standards across on-prem and cloud environments.