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Senior Database Administrator (PostgreSQL)

BTSE· BTSE – Data
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TaipeiFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Database Administrator with deep PostgreSQL expertise, focusing on automating deployment, monitoring, and performance tuning for mission-critical databases in Data Center and AWS environments. Responsible for designing high-availability PostgreSQL clusters, ensuring 24/7 reliability, observability, and integration with CI/CD.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL clusters in AWS environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
  • Develop automation for provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring of PostgreSQL databases.
  • Perform regular database maintenance including vacuuming, reindexing, and analyzing statistics to ensure peak performance.
  • Identify, analyze, and optimize slow SQL queries and workloads to improve efficiency and throughput.
  • Build resilient, high-availability database architectures that minimize downtime during upgrades, maintenance, and failovers.
  • Implement robust backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to guarantee data integrity and uptime.
  • Support and monitor 24/7 production systems, participating in incident response and root cause analysis when needed.
  • Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and engineering teams to improve scalability, performance, and CI/CD integration for database operations.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience managing PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL query optimization, indexing strategies, and PostgreSQL performance tuning.
  • Proven ability to design and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems with minimal or zero downtime.
  • Experience supporting mission-critical 24/7 systems in production, with on-call or incident response participation.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, and IAM.
  • Solid understanding of PostgreSQL replication, PITR (Point-in-Time Recovery), and HA solutions (Repmgr, Patroni, ProxySQL, or similar).
  • Experience automating infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
  • Proficiency in Linux systems administration and scripting (Bash, Python, or Go).

Skills

Required:PostgreSQLSQL query optimizationAWS (EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, IAM)Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Linux scripting (Bash, Python, Go)
Nice to have:Monitoring/Observability

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package
  • Various team-building programs and company events
  • And many more! Apply and let us tell you more!
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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