Engineering Database Engineer II Remote Poland

DataRobot, Inc.; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI solutions company is seeking a Database Engineer to join the Fleet Management team in Poland. The position involves managing database infrastructure within a large-scale Kubernetes environment, ensuring reliability, performance, and zero-downtime upgrades. Ideal candidates will possess extensive experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, along with strong skills in Kubernetes and scripting with Bash or Python. The company offers competitive pay and a range of benefits including medical and flexible time off.

Benefits

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Flexible Time Off Program

Paid Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Global Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Experience managing large-scale, high-availability database systems.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and Helm for database deployments.
• Strong proficiency in Bash and Python scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain database infrastructure using StatefulSets and Helm.
• Manage the deployment lifecycle for database clusters.
• Automate Kubernetes management tasks and monitor database performance.

Skills

Database administration

Kubernetes management

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Database performance tuning

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Helm

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Job Description

DataRobot delivers AI that maximizes impact and minimizes business risk. Our platform and applications integrate into core business processes so teams can develop, deliver, and govern AI at scale. DataRobot empowers practitioners to deliver predictive and generative AI, and enables leaders to secure their AI assets. Organizations worldwide rely on DataRobot for AI that makes sense for their business — today and in the future.

Datarobot is actively seeking a Database Engineer to join our Fleet Management team. This is a pivotal role that requires creativity, deep technical knowledge, and great enthusiasm to manage our stateful infrastructure.

This position is an exciting opportunity to own the full lifecycle (administration, automation, and troubleshooting) of our critical database systems operating within a large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes environment. You will be essential in driving our GitOps and Helm-centric deployment strategy, focusing on ensuring zero-downtime upgrades and maximizing performance and stability for our core platform services. This role offers the perfect opportunity to hone your skills and gain direct exposure to advanced cloud database architecture and container orchestration challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain database infrastructure using StatefulSets, Operators, and Helm charts to ensure databases are reliable, self-healing, and scalable.
• Own the deployment lifecycle for database clusters by managing version control for Helm charts and configuration templates.
• Support and administer production database systems by proactively instrumenting and monitoring performance, security, and availability within the containerized environment.
• Perform zero-downtime upgrades and migrations for major and minor releases, developing and maintaining Helm hooks and custom scripts to automate complex stateful operations.
• Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts (Bash, Python) specifically focused on simplifying Kubernetes management tasks, such as provisioning users/secrets and monitoring cluster state.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Experience managing large-scale, high-availability database systems (PostgreSQL and MongoDB) in a SaaS environment.
• Deep Expertise in Kubernetes & Helm:
  • Mandatory: Proven experience managing database deployments using Kubernetes and Helm deployments
  • Strong Proficiency: Experience defining, troubleshooting, and maintaining Kubernetes resources such as StatefulSets, Pod Security Contexts (SCCs), NetworkPolicy, and custom RBAC for database Service Accounts.
• Deep knowledge of advanced PostgreSQL HA concepts (e.g., streaming replication, Repmgr/Patroni) and MongoDB sharding and replication, specifically how they are implemented and configured via Helm values.
• Experience managing database infrastructure on major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Highly proficient in scripting (Bash/Python) and using GitOps principles to manage infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Strong grasp of database performance tuning, scaling concepts, and optimizing SQL/Aggregation queries.
• Container Orchestration Experience with production databases is mandatory.

The talent and dedication of our employees are at the core of DataRobot’s journey to be an iconic company. We strive to attract and retain the best talent by providing competitive pay and benefits with our employees’ well-being at the core. Here’s what your benefits package may include depending on your location and local legal requirements: Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Flexible Time Off Program, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more!

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