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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.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL clusters in AWS environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.\nDevelop automation for provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring of PostgreSQL databases.\nPerform regular database maintenance including vacuuming, reindexing, and analyzing statistics to ensure peak performance.\nIdentify, analyze, and optimize slow SQL queries and workloads to improve efficiency and throughput.\nBuild resilient, high-availability database architectures that minimize downtime during upgrades, maintenance, and failovers.\nImplement robust backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to guarantee data integrity and uptime.\nSupport and monitor 24/7 production systems, participating in incident response and root cause analysis when needed.\nCollaborate with SRE, DevOps, and engineering teams to improve scalability, performance, and CI/CD integration for database operations.\nRequirement\n4+ years of experience managing PostgreSQL databases in production environments.\nStrong knowledge of SQL query optimization, indexing strategies, and PostgreSQL performance tuning.\nProven ability to design and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems with minimal or zero downtime.\nExperience supporting mission-critical 24/7 systems in production, with on-call or incident response participation.\nHands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, and IAM.\nSolid understanding of PostgreSQL replication, PITR (Point-in-Time Recovery), and HA solutions (Repmgr,Patroni, ProxySQL, or similar).\nExperience automating infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.\nProficiency in Linux systems administration and scripting (Bash, Python, or Go).\nNice to Haves\nFamiliarity with observability and alerting stacks (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, CloudWatch).\nExposure to additional database systems such as ClickHouse or TimeScale Postgres.\nExperience building internal automation or self-healing tools for query analysis and database management.\nPerks & Benefits\nCompetitive total compensation package\nVarious team-building programs and company events\nAnd many more! 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