Staff Database Administrator (x/f/m)

Doctolib; Paris; Sur place; EUR 80 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Doctolib is seeking a Staff Database Administrator (DBA) to enhance and safeguard the health of its extensive databases. The role involves collaborating with tech teams to optimize database practices and improve the efficiency of data management, thereby ensuring quality healthcare delivery for patients and practitioners. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience with database reliability and scalability, emphasizing problem-solving and effective communication.

Prestations

Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children.

Parent Care Program: additional month of leave.

Free mental health services via Moka.care.

Support for caregivers and extra medical leave.

Work from EU countries for up to 10 days per year.

Subsidy for sports club memberships or creative classes.

Up to 14 days of RTT.

Lunch vouchers with Swile card.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a DBA or Engineer focused on scalability and reliability.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers.
• Fluent in English.

Responsabilités

• Monitor query performance and data modeling, optimizing queries.
• Assist in breaking down the main PostgreSQL database into scalable databases.
• Empower feature teams on database best practices.

Connaissances

Problem-solving

Communication

Mentoring

Outils

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Kafka

Debezium

Description du poste

Staff Database Administrator (DBA) at Doctolib

We are looking for a Staff Database Administrator (DBA) to join the DODO team in our Tech Department. As a Database Administrator, your mission will be to work on improving and protecting the health of our datastores, which is essential for providing reliable and efficient healthcare services to patients and practitioners. You will be working in a feature team responsible for empowering the whole tech teams to use our datastores in the most efficient way. Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

1. Empowering feature teams on database best practices.
2. Assisting in breaking down our main PostgreSQL database (30TB) into smaller, more scalable databases.
3. Monitoring query performance and data modeling, offering optimization recommendations to feature teams.
4. Setting up monitoring and alerting to catch performance issues.
5. Performing maintenance tasks on managed databases to enhance stability and improve performance.

About our tech environment

• Our solutions are built on a fully cloud-native platform supporting web and mobile interfaces, multiple languages, and tailored to country and healthcare specialty requirements. We are modularizing our platform into a distributed architecture with reusable components.
• Our stack includes Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.
• We ethically leverage AI across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here and learn about our first AI hackathon here.

Who you are

If you don't have the exact profile but believe this role matches your skills, we encourage you to apply.

• 10+ years of experience as a Database Administrator or Engineer focused on reliability and scalability.
• Strong problem-solving skills, especially in identifying and resolving database performance bottlenecks.
• Excellent communication skills for efficient knowledge transfer.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers on database performance challenges, query optimization, and best practices.
• Eager to leverage your experience to help your team and the entire Tech team grow.
• Fluent in English.

Additional qualifications that would be a plus:

• Experience with architecture choices for high-traffic web applications, especially scalability challenges on large databases.
• Experience with cloud-based environments and databases such as AWS Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Experience with Change Data Capture ecosystems & technologies such as Kafka and Debezium.

What we offer

• Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children.
• Parent Care Program: an additional month of leave on top of legal parental leave.
• Free mental health and coaching services via Moka.care.
• Support for caregivers and workers with disabilities, including remote work policies, extra medical leave, and psychological support.
• Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year with our flexibility days policy.
• Work Council subsidy for sports club memberships or creative classes.
• Up to 14 days of RTT.
• Lunch vouchers with Swile card.

Interview process

1. Phone screen with a Tech Recruiter.
2. DBA technical interview.
3. Behavioral interview.
4. Half-day immersion.
5. At least one reference check.

Learn more about tech life at Doctolib through our latest Medium blog articles.

At Doctolib, we are committed to improving healthcare access for all. We evaluate candidates solely on qualifications and motivation, promoting diversity and inclusion in our recruitment process. We welcome applications regardless of gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability. Please exclude personal details like pictures and age from your application. If you need accommodations, let us know. Join us in building the healthcare of our dreams!

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