
At Sendcloud, we help online retailers, marketplaces, and fulfillment companies scale their operations and deliver great shipping experiences. In today's world, consumers want to decide where, when, and how they receive an order when shopping online. But actually delivering on this promise while still making a profit is a huge challenge for e-commerce. Founded in 2012, Sendcloud was born from a genuine need for a better way to ship. We centralize and automate the entire shipping process, helping online retailers save time on everything from printing labels and packing orders to branded tracking and returns management. With access to 100+ carriers, 7000+ shipping methods, and 400,000+ parcel points across Europe, Sendcloud enables online merchants of any size to own their shipping from checkout to returns. With a growing ecosystem of 60+ webshop integrations and 750+ partners, we make it easy for online shops to scale cross-border shipping and expand to new markets. Backed by Softbank and trusted by 25,000 companies and counting - join Sendcloud on our mission to solve shipping globally.

At Sendcloud, we help online retailers, marketplaces, and fulfillment companies scale their operations and deliver great shipping experiences. In today's world, consumers want to decide where, when, and how they receive an order when shopping online. But actually delivering on this promise while still making a profit is a huge challenge for e-commerce. Founded in 2012, Sendcloud was born from a genuine need for a better way to ship. We centralize and automate the entire shipping process, helping online retailers save time on everything from printing labels and packing orders to branded tracking and returns management. With access to 100+ carriers, 7000+ shipping methods, and 400,000+ parcel points across Europe, Sendcloud enables online merchants of any size to own their shipping from checkout to returns. With a growing ecosystem of 60+ webshop integrations and 750+ partners, we make it easy for online shops to scale cross-border shipping and expand to new markets. Backed by Softbank and trusted by 25,000 companies and counting - join Sendcloud on our mission to solve shipping globally.
Founded: 2012
Core product: All‑in‑one e‑commerce shipping platform (checkout delivery options, label creation, multi‑carrier shipping, tracking, returns, automation)
Scale / reach: 100+ carriers, 7000+ shipping methods, 400,000+ parcel points across Europe
Customers: Reportedly trusted by tens of thousands of merchants (company-reported)
Funding highlight: Series C $177M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (announced Sep 15, 2021)
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E‑commerce shipping and logistics (streamlining parcel shipping, tracking, returns and carrier management)
2012
Software Development
$177M
Participants reported: L Catterton and HPE Growth
€12.6M
Participation/notes: BOM Brabant Ventures and Bonsai Partners; accompanying loan from Rabobank; prior investors listed include HenQ, TiiN Capital and Startupbootcamp
“Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in Series C; Series B led by AXA Venture Partners; prior investors include HenQ, TiiN Capital and Startupbootcamp”
📍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:
What will you do in this role? Hands-On Ownership
Architecture & Engineering Leadership
Cross-Engineering Enablement
Collaboration & Innovation
Our perfect match 💗
Nice to Have / Differentiators
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 🎉
Please note that we are not able to offer a visa sponsorship for this role.