Senior Database Engineer - PostgreSQL, MySQL (Europe)

This role calls for real agency. You'll spot issues before they escalate, make well-reasoned calls, and see them through to completion. You treat production data with care, flag risks early, and own the results of your work.

Required: PostgreSQL (Crunchy Bridge), MySQL (PlanetScale)
Nice-to-have: CockroachDB, SingleStore and Tinybird.

• Database health end to end: monitoring, incident response, and recovery readiness.
• Performance tuning across queries, indexes, schemas, and resource consumption.
• Safe planning and execution of migrations, backfills, and data fixes.
• Data consistency across primary databases, replicas, and analytics pipelines.
• Backup verification, restore testing, and ongoing improvements to security and access controls.
• Close collaboration with engineers on database design, plus automation of repetitive operational tasks.
• Performance and load testing in dedicated environments to surface bottlenecks, confirm scalability, and evaluate which database technologies best fit each workload.

• Substantial hands-on experience owning production databases.
• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL and strong SQL fluency.
• Working knowledge of distributed databases, replication, and both transactional and analytical workloads.
• A proven record of resolving incidents and shipping database changes safely.
• A strong sense of ownership, sharp attention to detail, and clear, direct communication.
• Comfort digging into application code and building your own operational tooling.

• Hands-on experience with any of our specific platforms (you don't need to know them all).
• Experience leading a team or mentoring engineers.

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