Sendcloud
shipping platform
StaffDatabaseAdministrator
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“Staff Database Administrator at Sendcloud. Skills: Database Administration, Performance Tuning, Data Architecture. Own database stack. Own data flows”
What You'll Achieve.
Enhance reliability; Raise engineering bar
Industry & Context.
Optimize queries; Address performance bottlenecks; Tune resources; Design resilient solutions; Design cost-efficient solutions; Design scalable solutions
Relocation offered
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Database stack ownership, Optimize queries, Monitor performance, Tune resources, Drive cross-engineering education, Level up DB hygiene, Architecture-level thinking, Design resilient data solutions, Design cost-efficient data solutions, Design scalable data solutions, Caching solutions, Streams solutions, SQL solutions, No-SQL solutions, Operate PostgreSQL clusters, Improve PostgreSQL clusters, Analyze complex queries, Optimize complex queries, Analyze schemas, Optimize schemas, Advise on No-SQL solutions, Improve No-SQL solutions, Advise on caching solutions, Improve caching solutions, Operate stream platforms, Maintain stream platforms, Operate event platforms, Maintain event platforms, Monitor data platforms health, Tune performance, Collaborate with engineers, Observability, Alerting, Backups
Nice to Have
AWS RDS, Aurora, Redis, Valkey, NATS, RabbitMQ
What You'll Do.
Bring architecture thinking
Design resilient solutions
Design cost-efficient solutions
Design scalable solutions
Operate PostgreSQL clusters
Improve PostgreSQL clusters
Operate stream platforms
Maintain stream platforms
Operate event platforms
Maintain event platforms
Monitor data platforms
Collaborate on observability
Collaborate on alerting
Collaborate on backups
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with Platform engineers; Collaborate with Product engineers
Full Job Description
📍This is a hybrid position based at our HQ in Eindhoven (1 day per week at the office) This Is What You Say at Parties 👋 We’re Sendcloud – Europe’s #1 shipping platform for e-commerce. We help online retailers, marketplaces, and fulfillment companies scale their operations and deliver standout shipping experiences. Over 25,000 e-commerce businesses trust us to simplify and supercharge their shipping. And we’re just getting started. What can you expect from this role? 🧐 While our engineering teams build innovative features and own their services, we face increasing complexity at the data layer. Challenges with query efficiency, performance bottlenecks, oversized database instances, and a lack of cross-team DB knowledge are emerging as we scale. We’re now hiring a Senior Hands-on DBA to join the Platform Services domain and to strengthen our core data practices, enhance reliability, and raise the engineering bar across the organization. This role is not just another DBA. We're looking for someone who: Owns our database stack and general data flows technically and operationally Can get hands dirty - optimize queries, monitor performance, tune resources Drives cross-engineering education and enablement - helping backend devs level up their DB hygiene Brings architecture-level thinking to design resilient, cost-efficient, and scalable data solutions, including caching, streams, SQL and No-SQL solutions What will you do in this role? Hands-On Ownership Operate and improve our PostgreSQL clusters running on AWS RDS and Aurora Analyze and optimize complex queries, indexes, and schemas Advise on and improve our No-SQL and caching solutions, primarily Redis/Valkey Operate and maintain our stream and events platforms using NATS and RabbitMQ Monitor data platforms health (slow queries, replication lag, resource utilization) and tune performance Collaborate with Platform and Product engineers on observability, alerting and backups Architecture we like honesty, transparency &
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