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This is a hands-on production ownership role, not a narrow ticket-processing DBA position. You will keep critical database services reliable, automate repeated work, support engineering teams, and reduce single-person dependency in our PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis operations.\nPostgreSQL is the main requirement. ClickHouse experience is a strong plus, but it is not a day-one blocker. We need a senior engineer with enough database, Linux, automation, and incident-response depth to learn our ClickHouse environment quickly and operate it safely.\nYour Responsibilities:\nOwn production PostgreSQL reliability: HA design, Patroni, PgBouncer, replication, failover, upgrades, vacuum/bloat control, query tuning, locks, indexes, capacity, backups, PITR, and restore validation. Improve disaster recovery and operational evidence: tested restores, documented recovery paths, measurable RTO/RPO targets, runbooks, and safe maintenance plans. Support the wider database estate: ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis. You will troubleshoot incidents, review access and data-safety changes, improve monitoring, and learn the production ClickHouse patterns already in use. Automate DBA workflows with Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD, scripts, and reproducible runbooks for provisioning, grants, backups, restores, health checks, and ownership metadata. Help build DBaaS-style self-service capabilities so engineering teams can request databases, access, credentials, and operational checks with less manual DBA intervention. Improve observability and incident response through Grafana, metrics, logs, SLOs, alert rules, Opsgenie routing, and clear communication during production issues.\nWhat Success Looks Like:\nPostgreSQL clusters have tested backup and restore paths, useful dashboards, clear ownership, and documented failover procedures.\nRepeated DBA tickets become automation or self-service workflows.\nClickHouse operational knowledge is no longer a single-person dependency.\nDatabase incidents have owners, runbooks, evidence, and measurable recovery paths.\nProduct and engineering teams get database help faster without sacrificing safety, auditability, or reliability.\nWhy Us?\nYou will work on real production infrastructure used across products.\nYou will have a direct impact on reliability, incident response, developer experience, and operational resilience.\nYou will also work in an AI-assisted engineering culture where automation, documentation, Claude, Codex, and careful human verification are part of the daily operating model.\nRequirements\nWhat We Expect From You:\nDeep hands-on PostgreSQL experience in business-critical production environments, typically 5+ years or equivalent depth.\nStrong understanding of PostgreSQL internals and operations: MVCC, WAL, transactions, locks, indexes, query planning, replication, autovacuum, bloat, major upgrades, backups, PITR, and restore testing.\nProven experience with highly available databases and the ability to reason about quorum, split-brain risk, failover, rollback, and recovery.\nStrong Linux and infrastructure fundamentals: systemd, networking, storage, filesystems, CPU/memory/disk bottlenecks, TLS, DNS, firewalls, and root-cause troubleshooting.\nAutomation skills with Ansible and scripting. Terraform/OpenTofu, GitLab CI/CD, and merge-request based delivery are strong advantages.\nAbility to support more than one database engine. You do not need to be a ClickHouse expert on day one, but you must be ready to learn it quickly and take responsibility for it.\nPractical use of AI engineering assistants such as Claude and Codex. 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