database administrator in fintech

HireHi; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options (ESOP)

Relocation support

Flexi benefits

22 Paid leave days annually

Job summary

HireHi в сфере финтех ищет опытного DBA ClickHouse для эксплуатации production кластеров в Kubernetes. Ваша задача — обеспечить надежность, производительность и безопасность больших распределённых баз данных.

Кандидат будет проектировать архитектуру, автоматизировать развёртывание и миграции, настраивать мониторинг и DR, помогать команде DevOps и инженерному руководству, а также участвовать в оптимизации затрат на инфраструктуру и снижении времени простоя.

Qualifications

• Глубокие DBA-уровневые знания ClickHouse: хранение, слияние, репликация, запросы.
• Высокий уровень SQL и дизайн схем
• Опыт проектирования архитектуры для множества нод
• Опыт эксплуатации большого количества инстансов на Kubernetes
• Производственный опыт работы с stateful workloads на Kubernetes
• Опыт использования Kubernetes оператора для баз данных
• Опыт обновлений, бэкапов и миграций между кластерами без простоев
• Навыки устранения неполадок по запросам, схемам, Kubernetes, Linux, хранению и сети
• Опыт мониторинга и alerting стека
• Опыт обеспечения безопасности БД (TLS, at rest, доступ, секреты)
• IaC-инфраструктура
• Опыт скриптовых языков для автоматизации
• Опыт работы в облаке
• Связь с инженерами и руководством
• Умение доводить проблему от исследования до исправления
• Желателен опыт с Kubernetes DB оператором и AI инструментами

Skills

SQL

Architecture design

Automation scripting

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

ClickHouse

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Monitoring stack (Prometheus/Grafana)

Job description

Описание:

Tabby is a fintech company that provides flexible payment solutions, allowing shoppers to split payments online and in stores without interest or fees. Its platform is used by more than 25 million users and over 70,000 brands and small businesses globally.

Задачи:

• Own the reliability and performance of production ClickHouse clusters across self-hosted Kubernetes and managed ClickHouse services
• Design standard architecture and tooling for dozens of multi-node clusters
• Manage cluster provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades, and migrations as code
• Build monitoring and alerting to identify issues before they affect users
• Own backups and disaster recovery, and regularly test restores
• Keep clusters secure by default
• Plan capacity and control infrastructure costs
• Support developers, DevOps engineers, DBAs, and engineering leadership with ClickHouse topics, including schema design, data ingestion, and query performance
• Handle routine database requests and automate them where possible
• Respond to production emergencies, including outside business hours
• Lead database-side root-cause analysis and contribute to postmortems
• Maintain documentation and runbooks and share knowledge with the team

Требования:

• Deep production DBA-level knowledge of ClickHouse, including storage, merging, replication, querying, and cluster behavior
• Strong SQL skills, including complex analytical query optimization and schema design review
• Ability to design architecture and automation for dozens of multi-node clusters
• Experience operating large database fleets with dozens or hundreds of instances
• Production experience running and maintaining stateful workloads on Kubernetes
• Experience using a Kubernetes operator for production databases
• Experience with version upgrades, backup and restore, and large dataset migrations between clusters or regions with zero or minimal downtime
• Strong troubleshooting skills across queries, schema design, Kubernetes, Linux, storage, and networking
• Experience building monitoring and alerting with a modern observability stack
• Practical database security experience with encryption in transit and at rest, access control, and secrets management
• Infrastructure as code experience with a mainstream tool
• At least one programming or scripting language for automation
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with a major provider
• Clear written and spoken communication with engineers and leadership
• Ability to independently take a problem from investigation through production fix
• Nice to have: hands-on work on Kubernetes database operator source code, practical use of AI tools for database observability or operational automation, experience in highly regulated environments, Kubernetes or cloud certifications

Условия:

• Full-time B2B contract
• Up to 20% tax allowance
• 22 Paid leave days annually
• Stock options (ESOP) in a fast-scaling, pre-IPO company
• Flexi benefits for wellness, travel, or learning
• Relocation support is available to hubs in Armenia, Georgia, Serbia, Portugal, Poland, and Spain, including flights, temporary accommodation, and legal setup if needed