Remote PostgreSQL Engineer II - Cloud DB Expert

optro; Polska; Remote; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global growth

Home allowance

Location benefits

Compensation & bonus

Annual leave

Employee groups

Team events

Job summary

Optro is seeking a Database Engineer with 2–3 years of PostgreSQL experience to support AWS and Azure deployments across cloud environments. You’ll handle administration, optimization, backup/recovery, and automation tasks, working with Kubernetes workloads and modern observability tools.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and strong SQL troubleshooting, with collaboration across engineering teams to ensure high availability and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or related field.
• 2–3 years of hands‑on PostgreSQL administration experience.
• Experience supporting PostgreSQL in AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL architecture, backup/recovery, replication, and performance tuning concepts.
• Experience in working with applications hosted in Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Strong SQL troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Support administration and maintenance of PostgreSQL databases hosted on AWS RDS and Azure PostgreSQL.
• Monitor database health, performance, replication, storage, and availability.
• Assist with database provisioning, upgrades, patching, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery activities.
• Troubleshoot database issues including slow queries, blocking, deadlocks, replication lag, and connectivity problems.
• Support SQL performance tuning and collaborate with application teams on optimization efforts.
• Manage database security, users, roles, and access controls.
• Assist in automating routine DBA tasks using Bash or Python scripting.
• Work with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and standard procedures.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

SQL troubleshooting

Cloud experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS RDS PostgreSQL

Azure PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Bash

Python

Grafana

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Job description

Optro is seeking a Database Engineer with 2–3 years of PostgreSQL experience to support AWS and Azure deployments across cloud environments. You’ll handle administration, optimization, backup/recovery, and automation tasks, working with Kubernetes workloads and modern observability tools.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and strong SQL troubleshooting, with collaboration across engineering teams to ensure high availability and performance.