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We're building a fully featured European cloud computing platform-with everything one needs to run, scale, and deploy applications and workloads. In addition, our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy.\nWe're ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We've already achieved a lot, yet we're only getting started. Now it's your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!\nJoin Verda while it's still being built - not once it's finished.\nBehind every product we ship sits a database that has to be correct, durable, and fast. As our Database Administrator, you'll own the stateful layer of our platform end-to-end: the Postgres and ClickHouse clusters that hold our operational and analytical data, and the supporting key-value and document stores that surround them. You'll be the person engineering teams trust when they need a new cluster designed, an outage diagnosed, or a migration run without losing a byte.\n\nWhy VerdaCash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).\n\nProfitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.\n\n31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.\n\nAn opportunity to make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.\n\nPracticalitiesLocation: Helsinki\n\nHybrid mode: This role requires presence in our Helsinki office 3 days per week. Don't worry - you won't be alone or hangry there. (We keep a stocked fridge)\n\nEmployment type: Full-time and permanent\n\nYour responsibilitiesOwn the lifecycle of our stateful data storages - design, deploy, operate, upgrade, and decommission Postgres and ClickHouse clusters in production\n\nRun replication, high-availability, and failover for Postgres and ClickHouse (replicated tables, keeper, sharding)\n\nDesign and continuously verify backup and point-in-time recovery procedures across all managed engines, and rehearse restores on a regular cadence\n\nMaintain monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning for database workloads, and drive query- and schema-level performance work with the application teams\n\nParticipate in on-call rotations, lead incident response for data-tier outages, and run blameless post-mortems\n\nPlan and execute schema changes, version upgrades, and data migrations with zero or minimal downtime\n\nOperate the surrounding key-value and NoSQL stores (Redis-style caches, Mongo, etc.) the platform depends on\n\nDevelop automation for provisioning, configuration, and routine operations using Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows\n\nContribute to data-tier standards, runbooks, and operational best practices\n\nYour key competencies5+ years administering production relational databases, with deep hands-on Postgres expertise\n\nStrong experience with Postgres replication, high availability, failover, backup and point-in-time recovery\n\nStrong experience with analytical databases; ClickHouse in production is a strong plus, and candidates who can demonstrate rapid mastery of complex new technologies are encouraged to apply.\n\nTrack record of database performance tuning - query plans, indexing, schema design, vacuum/merge behavior, resource sizing\n\nExperience with on-call rotations and production incident management on the data tier\n\nStrong Linux administration and debugging skills\n\nExperience with infrastructure automation (Ansible), GitOps, and CI/CD as applied to stateful systems\n\nComfortable designing and executing zero/low-downtime schema changes and major-version upgrades\n\nWorking knowledge of database observability - metrics, slow-query analysis, and capacity planning (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)\n\nScripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)\n\nStrong collaboration and communication skills\n\nNice to haveExperience operating key-value storages (Redis, Valkey, etcd, or similar) in production\n\nExperience operating NoSQL document databases such as MongoDB\n\nFamiliarity with running stateful workloads on Kubernetes (operators, persistent volumes, storage classes)\n\nFamiliarity with connection poolers (PgBouncer, Pgpool) and proxy layers\n\nExperience with logical replication and cross-cluster data movement (Debezium, CDC pipelines)\n\nKnowledge of distributed systems, storage, and high-availability environments\n\nExposure to data security and compliance practices (encryption at rest/in transit, access controls, audit logging)\n\nComfortable using AI-powered tooling to improve engineering workflows.\n\nWhat's nextWe're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now.\nPlease submit your application through our Careers page. 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