Senior PostgreSQL & VectorDB Platform Engineer

Kraken; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is looking for a PostgreSQL Engineer in South Africa to scale high-throughput database clusters and enhance operational efficiency. You will work closely with database and SRE teams, ensuring reliability and performance while integrating automation and self-service solutions.

This role demands strong skills in PostgreSQL, cloud technologies, and CI/CD practices, alongside a commitment to maintaining high availability and security in database operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating PostgreSQL in high-volume production environments.
• Experience with high availability and read scaling.
• Practical experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.

Responsibilities

• Scale and tune high-throughput PostgreSQL clusters.
• Reduce manual operational work by building automation.
• Participate in on-call rotations to enhance reliability.

Skills

PostgreSQL operations

Performance tuning

Incident troubleshooting

High availability

Container orchestration

VectorDB experience

Scripting

Infrastructure-as-Code

Observability

Tools

PgBouncer

HAProxy

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Kraken is looking for a PostgreSQL Engineer in South Africa to scale high-throughput database clusters and enhance operational efficiency. You will work closely with database and SRE teams, ensuring reliability and performance while integrating automation and self-service solutions.

This role demands strong skills in PostgreSQL, cloud technologies, and CI/CD practices, alongside a commitment to maintaining high availability and security in database operations.