Senior PostgreSQL Architect – Trading Platform, Amsterdam

Doghouse Recruitment; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous bonus scheme

Job summary

Doghouse Recruitment is helping an Amsterdam-based proprietary trading firm recruit a Database Platform Engineer specializing in PostgreSQL. You will own backup, restore, security and monitoring standards and ensure fast, scalable workloads with replication and failover.

Build a self-service platform and advise on database design as the firm moves its cloud direction forward. You will work closely with engineers and traders, with a liberal, autonomous culture in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on PostgreSQL production experience with focus on backups, restore, security and monitoring.
• Experience designing recovery strategies and testing them.
• Automation mindset: IaC, Git and CI/CD are second nature.
• Ability to own a domain and explain trade-offs to developers, quants and traders.

Responsibilities

• Set the standard for backups, restore, security and monitoring for PostgreSQL databases.
• Keep high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads fast with growth and replication/failover.
• Build a self-service PostgreSQL platform for dev teams without a dedicated DB expert.
• Advise on database design and help shape the firm's cloud direction.

Skills

PostgreSQL production

Backups & recovery

Automation / IaC

Git & CI/CD

Cloud (GCP)

Kubernetes

Time-series data

Financial services domain

Tools

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

Job description

Doghouse Recruitment is helping an Amsterdam-based proprietary trading firm recruit a Database Platform Engineer specializing in PostgreSQL. You will own backup, restore, security and monitoring standards and ensure fast, scalable workloads with replication and failover.

Build a self-service platform and advise on database design as the firm moves its cloud direction forward. You will work closely with engineers and traders, with a liberal, autonomous culture in a fast-growing environment.