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 & Engineering Leadership

• Design and advocate for scalable DB schemas and solutions in a microservices environment as well as for larger applications
• Work closely with feature teams on data design patterns, DB scaling challenges, read/write strategies and data migrations
• Guide decisions around caching, partitioning, denormalization, replication, etc.
• Control usage of the right data tools for the right job, such as NoSQL datastores and event systems

Cross-Engineering Enablement

• Be a driving force of "DB Engineering Enablement" program for engineering teams
• Training, playbooks, checklists, 'DB Hygiene 101' guidelines
• Act as a trusted advisor to Engineers in feature teams
• Evangelize performance awareness and operational excellence for data platforms

Collaboration & Innovation

• Work with our Platform and Product Engineering teams to ensure data reliability, performance, and scalability
• Influence our long-term data architecture strategy, including tooling, observability, and cost-efficiency
• Stay on top of emerging PostgreSQL and AWS RDS capabilities, bringing innovative practices to the team

Our perfect match 💗

• 8+ years of professional experience in database engineering, administration, or architecture roles
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, ideally in high-availability, production environments
• 3+ years operating PostgreSQL on AWS (RDS or Aurora), including backup strategies, replication, monitoring, and performance tuning
• 3+ years working in cloud-native/SaaS environments, preferably in a microservices-based architecture
• Strong command of PostgreSQL internals (planner, vacuuming, WAL, query plans)
• Proven track record of solving query and performance bottlenecks at scale
• Experience designing or evolving database schemas for high-traffic applications
• Solid experience with monitoring tools (e.g., pg_stat_statements, pgBadger, Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Familiarity with caching strategies (Redis/Valkey) and message queues (RabbitMQ) in data flows
• Experience with infrastructure as code and DevOps practices (Git, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, etc.)
• Understanding of Kubernetes-based environments and how DBs interact with containerized workloads
• Awareness of cost optimization techniques in AWS RDS
• Comfortable reading Python application code using ORMs (e.g., SQLAlchemy, Django ORM)
• Ability to work alongside developers and speak their language - schema design, migrations, query structure
• Strong cross-functional collaboration experience with Platform, Backend teams and Staff/Principal Engineers
• Demonstrated ability to teach, mentor, or run enablement programs internally (e.g., DB best practices, workshops)

Nice to Have / Differentiators

• Experience defining data governance, versioning, or lifecycle policies
• Exposure to analytical DBs (e.g., Redshift, ClickHouse, Snowflake)
• Contributions to open-source PostgreSQL tooling or internal libraries

You share our core values: 💩 No bullshit: we don't like big egos; we like honesty, transparency & openness. Share your mistakes with us and learn from them!

🎯 Grow & Win: Keep on learning and improving from each other mistakes and by actively searching for ways to keep on developing your skills.

🎠 Have fun: you are not afraid to be yourself, and you love to be surrounded by your awesome colleagues!

Benefits 🎉

• Working in an internationally oriented, fast-growing, certified Great Place to Work! 📌
• A good salary that grows within the company and your accomplishments
• 28 holidays per year on a full-time basis + a free holiday on/around your birthday 🥳
• After 3 years of employment, you get a sabbatical of 4 weeks from us
• Keep growing with a study budget of €2000,- per year!
• Stay fit with our office gym
• Pension scheme
• A flexible hybrid working model and a dedicated 500€ budget to set up your home office 🏠
• Access to many discount programs, shop till you drop! 🛍

Please note that we are not able to offer relocation for this role. All candidates must be living in the Netherlands.