Senior PostgreSQL DBA — Hybrid, Learning Budget & Growth

Axa Venture Partners; Eindhoven; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget €2,000

Hybrid office 1 day/week in Eindhoven

Paid vacations

Home office budget

Gym access

Lunch & fruit

Pension scheme

Employee discount

Dog-friendly office

Job summary

Sendcloud, based in Eindhoven, is hiring a Senior PostgreSQL DBA to own our PostgreSQL estate end-to-end. You’ll drive performance, schema design, and cost‑effective backup strategies to support 30,000+ retailers.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with Platform and Product teams, and shape long‑term PostgreSQL strategy. This role includes a hybrid office model with one day per week in the Eindhoven office.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in database engineering or administration with PostgreSQL as your primary focus, including 4+ years hands‑on in high‑availability production environments.
• 3+ years operating PostgreSQL on AWS (RDS or Aurora), covering backup strategies, replication, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• 3+ years working in cloud‑native or SaaS environments, ideally within a microservices‑based architecture.
• Strong command of PostgreSQL internals — planner, vacuuming, WAL, and query plans — with a proven track record of solving performance bottlenecks at scale.
• Comfortable with infrastructure‑as‑code and DevOps practices (Git, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines), and confident reading Python application code using ORMs such as SQLAlchemy or Django ORM.
• Nice to have: previous experience with connection pooling (e.g. RDS Proxy) in high‑concurrency environments, or contributions to open‑source PostgreSQL tooling.

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve PostgreSQL clusters running on AWS RDS and Aurora, tuning performance and resolving bottlenecks before they become incidents.
• Analyse and optimise complex queries, indexes, and schemas to keep performance predictable as traffic scales.
• Own backup and disaster-recovery strategy, including regular restore testing and clear RTO/RPO targets.
• Lead PostgreSQL major-version upgrades and zero-downtime schema migrations on systems that can't afford downtime.
• Design scalable PostgreSQL schemas for a microservices environment, guiding decisions on partitioning, denormalisation, replication, and indexing.
• Build security into schema design, including row-level security policies and least-privilege access for sensitive tables.
• Drive PostgreSQL enablement across engineering — training, playbooks, and 'DB Hygiene 101' guidelines that raise the bar for every team.
• Work with our Platform and Product Engineering teams to ensure data reliability, performance, and scalability
• Contribute to our long-term PostgreSQL strategy, including tooling, observability, and cost-efficiency

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS

SQL performance

DevOps

ORMS

Tools

AWS RDS

Aurora

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Python

Job description

Sendcloud, based in Eindhoven, is hiring a Senior PostgreSQL DBA to own our PostgreSQL estate end-to-end. You’ll drive performance, schema design, and cost‑effective backup strategies to support 30,000+ retailers.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with Platform and Product teams, and shape long‑term PostgreSQL strategy. This role includes a hybrid office model with one day per week in the Eindhoven office.