Senior Database Administrator

Btse; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total compensation package

Various team-building programs and公司

Job summary

BTSE Group is seeking an experienced Database Administrator with deep PostgreSQL expertise to scale and secure our 24/7 trading and analytics platforms in AWS and on-premise data centers.

You will design high-availability PostgreSQL clusters, automate deployment with Terraform/Ansible, tune queries, and implement backup and DR strategies, collaborating with SRE and DevOps teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of PostgreSQL in production with tuning and replication.
• Experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3) and HA/clustering.
• IaC and automation using Terraform/Ansible on Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL clusters in AWS using IaC.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and monitoring of PostgreSQL databases.
• Perform regular maintenance including vacuuming, reindexing, and statistics analysis.
• Identify and optimize slow queries for throughput and efficiency.
• Build resilient, high-availability architectures with minimal downtime.
• Implement robust backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Support 24/7 production systems and participate in incident response.
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps to improve CI/CD for database operations.

Skills

PostgreSQL

SQL optimization

High availability architectures

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Linux administration

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PostgreSQL

Job description

About BTSE

BTSE Group is a global leader in fintech and blockchain technology, anchored by three core business pillars: Exchange, Payments, and Infrastructure Development. Serving over 100 corporate clients worldwide, we provide white-label exchange and payment solutions. Our offerings encompass everything from exchange infrastructure hosting and development to custody, wallets, payments, blockchain integration, trading, and more. We are looking for talented professionals in marketing, operations, customer support, and other departments. The roles offered may be on-site, remote, or hybrid, in collaboration with our local partner.

About the Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator with deep PostgreSQL expertise and hands-on experience automating database deployment, monitoring, and performance tuning on Data Center and AWS. You will be part of the core infrastructure team responsible for scaling and maintaining BTSE's mission-critical database systems that power our trading and analytics platforms. This role offers the opportunity to design, automate, and optimize high-availability PostgreSQL clusters while ensuring reliability, minimal downtime, and strong observability across production environments operating 24/7.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL clusters in AWS environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring of PostgreSQL databases.
• Perform regular database maintenance including vacuuming, reindexing, and analyzing statistics to ensure peak performance.
• Identify, analyze, and optimize slow SQL queries and workloads to improve efficiency and throughput.
• Build resilient, high-availability database architectures that minimize downtime during upgrades, maintenance, and failovers.
• Implement robust backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to guarantee data integrity and uptime.
• Support and monitor 24/7 production systems, participating in incident response and root cause analysis when needed.
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and engineering teams to improve scalability, performance, and CI/CD integration for database operations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience managing PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of SQL query optimization, indexing strategies, and PostgreSQL performance tuning.
• Proven ability to design and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems with minimal or zero downtime.
• Experience supporting mission-critical 24/7 systems in production, with on-call or incident response participation.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, and IAM.
• Solid understanding of PostgreSQL replication, PITR (Point-in-Time Recovery), and HA solutions (Repmgr,Patroni, ProxySQL, or similar).
• Experience automating infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Proficiency in Linux systems administration and scripting (Bash, Python, or Go).

Additional Qualifications

• Familiarity with observability and alerting stacks (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Exposure to additional database systems such as ClickHouse or TimeScale Postgres.
• Experience building internal automation or self-healing tools for query analysis and database management.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• Various team-building programs and company events

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