Remote PostgreSQL CloudOps Engineer (High-Load DB)

Salmon Group; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Company-provided tools

Medical insurance support

Mental health support

Vacation days and holidays

Team trips to Manila

Job summary

Salmon Group is seeking a remote, high-load PostgreSQL specialist to help keep our financial tech infrastructure reliable, secure, and scalable. You will own critical database operations, migrations, and performance tuning in a distributed AWS data stack, collaborating closely with developers.

With 3–5+ years in software or data engineering, you’ll optimize queries, manage schemas, and reduce bottlenecks using Terraform, Aurora/RDS, and containerized tooling.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of professional experience in software engineering or data engineering.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL—query optimization, indexing, replication, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience with large-scale data systems, ETL pipelines, or distributed backend systems.
• Solid understanding of SQL performance tuning, schema design, and transaction management.
• Hands-on experience with Linux systems, monitoring tools, and automation scripting, plus familiarity with AWS services (Aurora, RDS, Redshift, Kafka Debezium connectors).
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Own a high-load PostgreSQL environment running around 20,000 transactions per minute, where reliability and fast incident response are non-negotiable
• Work across a modern AWS data stack (RDS, Aurora) managed through Terraform, alongside engineers who rely on your calls on schema and query design
• Partner closely with the development team on database architecture, query optimization, and new database-related projects and services
• Support and administer a high-load PostgreSQL database handling roughly 20,000 transactions per minute
• Perform and maintain zero-downtime (seamless) database migrations
• Proactively identify and resolve database issues and performance bottlenecks
• Configure and maintain PostgreSQL infrastructure in AWS (RDS, Aurora) through Terraform
• Drive database architecture optimization, performance tuning, and bottleneck analysis, and propose improvements
• Own incident and performance management for databases, and take the initiative to flag issues and propose work — not just handle incoming tickets

Skills

PostgreSQL

SQL tuning

Linux

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Performance tuning

Incidents

Data engineering

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS RDS/Aurora

Kafka Debezium

Job description

Salmon Group is seeking a remote, high-load PostgreSQL specialist to help keep our financial tech infrastructure reliable, secure, and scalable. You will own critical database operations, migrations, and performance tuning in a distributed AWS data stack, collaborating closely with developers.

With 3–5+ years in software or data engineering, you’ll optimize queries, manage schemas, and reduce bottlenecks using Terraform, Aurora/RDS, and containerized tooling.