Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) based in Mexico.

As a Senior Database Administrator, you’ll take ownership of the reliability, performance, availability, and scalability of critical production database systems. You’ll work across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB in a fast-growing payments infrastructure environment. The role combines hands-on database administration with architecture, disaster recovery, deployment, and performance optimization. You’ll partner closely with Engineering to design resilient data solutions and support new product capabilities at scale. You’ll also contribute to security, access control, governance, and operational best practices across the database environment. Working within a distributed international team, you’ll have significant autonomy while collaborating closely with engineering leadership and other database specialists. This is an opportunity to solve complex infrastructure challenges while directly influencing the reliability of a growing technology platform.

Accountabilities

• Own the performance, availability, reliability, and scalability of production database environments across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
• Design, implement, and maintain robust backup, replication, high-availability, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Plan and execute database deployments, migrations, schema changes, and other infrastructure updates while minimizing downtime and operational risk.
• Provide after-hours and on-call support for critical deployments and production database incidents, sharing coverage with the wider technical team.
• Monitor database health, identify performance bottlenecks, investigate incidents, and implement proactive solutions to maintain stable and efficient systems.
• Partner with Engineering teams to design scalable and resilient data architectures that support new products, features, and evolving business requirements.
• Establish and maintain best practices for database security, access management, data governance, reliability, and operational consistency.
• Document database architecture, procedures, recovery processes, and operational standards to strengthen team knowledge and continuity.
• Mentor engineers and share database best practices, troubleshooting approaches, and performance optimization techniques.
• Collaborate across a distributed, multi-time-zone environment to ensure effective communication and reliable database operations.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Database Administrator, Database Engineer, or in a comparable senior data infrastructure role.
• Strong hands-on production experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
• Proven expertise in database backup and recovery, replication, high-availability architectures, and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience supporting production deployments, migrations, and database changes, including participation in after-hours or on-call rotations.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex database issues under pressure.
• Experience designing or supporting scalable database architectures in production environments.
• Strong understanding of database security, access control, governance, and operational best practices.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership in a fully remote, distributed team operating across multiple time zones.
• Fluent written and spoken English and Spanish.
• Based in Mexico or a comparable time zone that provides effective working-hour overlap with a Bogotá-based engineering team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers and technical stakeholders across functions.
• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing skills, with an interest in mentoring other engineers.

Benefits:

• Competitive monthly compensation of $3,000-$4,500.
• Fully remote working environment.
• Opportunity to work on complex database and infrastructure challenges within a growing payments technology environment.
• High level of ownership and autonomy over critical production database systems.
• Collaboration with an international, distributed engineering team.
• Opportunity to contribute to scalable payment infrastructure across Latin America and beyond.
• Exposure to multiple leading database technologies, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
• Opportunities to influence database architecture, reliability, security, and engineering best practices.
• Flexible collaboration across time zones with a team that values clear communication and technical excellence.