Senior Database Administrator

PT Lentera Bangsa Benderang; Jakarta Selatan; On-site; IDR 380,000,000 - 700,000,000; Full time

Job summary

BINAR is seeking a Senior DBA to design, build, and maintain monitoring systems for critical database metrics, with intelligent auto-alerting, in Jakarta.

You will proactively monitor and optimize slow queries, ensure robust replication with zero data loss, and lead a 24/7 on-call rotation, while upholding security and disaster recovery. Location is Mampang, South Jakarta; start ASAP.

Join BINAR's mission to empower Indonesia's digital talent and grow with a fast-moving tech startup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Information Technology.
• Minimum of 8 years as a DBA in large-scale, high-traffic environments.
• Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL knowledge.
• Proven experience in failover, disaster recovery, and zero-downtime migrations.
• Excellent communication to challenge designs for performance and cost efficiency.
• Experience in transportation/logistics tech startups is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain monitoring systems for critical DB metrics with auto-alerting.
• Monitor slow queries and propose improvements to queries and logic.
• Understand cardinality, indexing, partitioning for large tables.
• Own database replication for zero data loss during disruptions.
• Plan capacity to prevent cost spikes and performance dips.
• Lead 24/7 on-call rotation for production incidents.
• Drive post-mortems focusing on long-term systemic improvements.
• Ensure data security, access control, and tested backups/recovery.

Skills

8+ years DBA

SQL proficiency

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

NoSQL

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/IT

Job description

Design, build, and maintain monitoring systems for critical database metrics, equipped with intelligent auto-alerting mechanisms.

Proactively monitor and analyze slow queries—beyond adding missing indexes, provide actionable recommendations to engineering teams to improve query structure and application logic.

Demonstrate deep understanding of cardinality, efficient index utilization, and the ability to manage rapidly growing tables through effective partitioning or sharding strategies.

Take full ownership of database replication mechanisms, ensuring seamless auto-failover processes with zero data loss during disruptions.

Proactively conduct capacity planning to prevent unexpected infrastructure cost spikes and avoid sudden performance degradation due to data growth.

Lead and uphold a 24/7 on-call rotation culture within the DBA team to ensure immediate response to production incidents.

Drive a strong post-mortem culture following every incident, focusing on long-term systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.

Ensure data security, proper access control management, and regularly tested backup and recovery procedures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain monitoring systems for critical database metrics, equipped with intelligent auto-alerting mechanisms.

• Proactively monitor and analyze slow queries—beyond adding missing indexes, provide actionable recommendations to engineering teams to improve query structure and application logic.

• Demonstrate deep understanding of cardinality, efficient index utilization, and the ability to manage rapidly growing tables through effective partitioning or sharding strategies.

• Take full ownership of database replication mechanisms, ensuring seamless auto-failover processes with zero data loss during disruptions.

• Proactively conduct capacity planning to prevent unexpected infrastructure cost spikes and avoid sudden performance degradation due to data growth.

• Lead and uphold a 24/7 on-call rotation culture within the DBA team to ensure immediate response to production incidents.

• Drive a strong post-mortem culture following every incident, focusing on long-term systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.

• Ensure data security, proper access control management, and regularly tested backup and recovery procedures.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information System, or Information Technology

• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Database Administrator (DBA) in large-scale, high-traffic production environments.

• Strong technical expertise in SQL, with in-depth knowledge of database engines such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL, and others.

• Proven experience in handling failover scenarios, disaster recovery, and zero-downtime database migrations.

• Strong, assertive communication skills with the ability to challenge engineering teams when proposed query structures may negatively impact database performance or cost efficiency.

• High level of discipline in maintaining operational documentation and adhering to cybersecurity standards and best practices.

• Prior experience in the transportation or logistics industry and high-growth tech startups is considered a significant advantage.

• Available to be hired and start working as soon as possible.

• Willing to work from Head Office in Mampang, South Jakarta.

Hiring Steps

• 2–3 Interview Rounds

• Psychological Assessment (after passing the first interview)

• Job Offer

• Medical Check-Up (MCU)

Work Arrangement

• Employment: Fulltime - Permanent Employee (PKWTT)

• Location: Mampang, South Jakarta

BINAR was born in 2017 to advance Indonesia’s technology ecosystem. Our mission is to solve digital talent gap by upskilling and job matching.

We support people to build a career in digital industry or upskilling into digital related roles with the knowledge and skills needed to thrive through a structured learning journey and multiple learning styles to ensure each learner can reach mastery through their own preferred way.

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