Senior Open-Source DB Engineer – FinTech, High-Performance

N P Associates; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Hybrid work (London/Paris)

Job summary

N P Associates is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own and optimize a high-performance, open-source database estate spanning MySQL, PostgreSQL, and time-series workloads. Based in London or Paris with a hybrid model, you will partner with Engineering and Operations to ensure high availability, implement robust observability with Grafana, and guide upgrades and disaster recovery planning.

This role also involves working with Dolt, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Linux-based tooling to support

Qualifications

• Production-scale MySQL environments experience.
• Solid PostgreSQL knowledge and tuning.
• Linux-based server administration and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Estate Ownership: Administer, monitor, and scale the database ecosystem for high availability.
• Collaborate with Engineering on schema design, query optimization, and access patterns.
• Build Observability: surface metrics on Grafana dashboards via complex SQL.
• Plan upgrades, patch management, and test recovery (RPO/RTO).

Skills

Open-Source DBA

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Linux

Query optimization

High-throughput experience

Tools

Dolt

Redis

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Linux tooling

Job description

N P Associates is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own and optimize a high-performance, open-source database estate spanning MySQL, PostgreSQL, and time-series workloads. Based in London or Paris with a hybrid model, you will partner with Engineering and Operations to ensure high availability, implement robust observability with Grafana, and guide upgrades and disaster recovery planning.

This role also involves working with Dolt, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Linux-based tooling to support