Principal Database Administrator, DBA

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Finom

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2019

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

Fintech • Finance • B2B

Finom is a fintech company offering comprehensive financial services for SMEs, freelancers, and companies. The platform provides tools for invoicing, expense management, and easy online account opening with added benefits like cashback and international IBAN accounts. Finom ensures data security through partnerships with banks like SolarisBank and Treezor, making it a fast and reliable service for business financial management.

📋 Description

• Own Database Reliability by driving high availability and disaster recovery strategies • Define and execute the scalability roadmap, including partitioning and sharding strategies • Perform deep-dive query optimization and proactive bottleneck remediation • Build and manage scalable inference and connection pooling strategies and robust backup/restore automations • Design the monitoring architecture and define SLIs/SLOs for database health • Implement banking-grade security practices, including credential management • Collaborate with product teams to ensure database schema changes support high-load environments • Set the technical bar for the DBA function through mentoring and hands-on implementation

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a PostgreSQL DBA in high-load, production environments • Advanced knowledge of index design (B-tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN), partitioning, and vacuum tuning • Proven experience designing streaming replication, clustering, and automated backup validation • Hands-on experience with cloud-managed PostgreSQL (specifically GCP) and Linux systems administration • Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD workflows (GitLab, ArgoCD) • Expertise in complex queries, stored procedures, and functions • Experience building monitoring and alerting for databases (Prometheus/Grafana) • Fluent in English

🏖️ Benefits

• Make a genuine impact on the product • Join our upward trajectory, and grow with us • Provide the resources and opportunities for continuous personal and professional development • Enjoy the flexibility of traveling and working remotely or in a hybrid model across Europe • Become a stock options holder through our Stock Options Program • Receive unwavering support and care to ensure your success • Work & Swim program in Cyprus with a comfortable corporate apartment • Equal Opportunity Employer, valuing diversity

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