Principal Database Administrator, DBA

🕒 May 13

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Finom

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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: Drive high availability and disaster recovery strategies • Architect for Scale: Define and execute the scalability roadmap • Optimize Performance: Perform deep-dive query optimization and execution plan analysis • Design Infrastructure: Build and manage scalable inference and connection pooling strategies • Establish Observability: Design the monitoring architecture and define SLIs/SLOs for database health • Champion Security: Implement banking-grade security practices • Partner Across Engineering: Work with product teams to ensure database schema changes support a high-load environment • Lead by Example: Set the technical bar for the DBA function through mentoring and standards definition

🎯 Requirements

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

🏖️ Benefits

• Make a genuine impact on the product • Join our upward trajectory, and grow with us • Work in the EU • Enjoy the flexibility of traveling and working remotely or in a hybrid model across Europe • Become a stock options holder • Unlock your inner entrepreneur and align your aspirations with ours through our Stock Options Program • Receive unwavering support and care • Finom stands by you at every step • Embodying our commitment to your well-being and success • Work & Swim program • Immerse yourself in our exclusive Work & Swim Program • Spend one month in a comfortable corporate apartment in enchanting Cyprus • Equal Opportunity Statement • We invite applications from all walks of life