Senior Database Administrator

This is a hybrid position based at our HQ in Eindhoven (1 day per week at the office)

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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:

• 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, moni