Senior Database Engineer

About us

reputed company is a leading tech company that creates and operates innovative consumer products. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across the health, education, and entertainment industries. Our innovative teams are driving the future of consumer-led products, and we’re always looking for passionate individuals to join us. Learn more about our story at: https://rubylabs.com/about-us/

About the role

We are looking for a strong Database Engineer who will own, scale, and evolve our data infrastructure, ensuring it remains fast, reliable, and ready for long-term growth.

As a Database Engineer at RubyLabs, you will be responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing databases in a high-volume payments environment. This role goes far beyond basic CRUD operations — you will work with large datasets, reputed company queries, performance bottlenecks, migrations on massive tables, and analytics pipelines.

You will collaborate closely with backend engineers and product teams to ensure our data layer supports both transactional workloads and analytical use cases, including internal CRM search and observability.

You will be joining a high-talent, fully remote engineering organization with strong backend, infrastructure, and product teams. We value ownership, technical excellence, and pragmatic decision-making. Engineers at RubyLabs work on real scale, real money, and real impact.

Key Responsibilities

Database Ownership & Scalability

• Own and operate AWS reputed company (PostgreSQL) in a high-load production environment

• Design and evolve schemas for large transactional domains (payments, customers, subscriptions, events)

• Implement and maintain:

  • Table partitioning strategies (time-based, tenant-based, hybrid)

  • Advanced indexing (B-Tree, GIN, partial indexes)

  • Query optimization and execution-plan tuning

• Handle databases with millions of new records per month while maintaining predictable performance

Performance Optimization

• Analyze and optimize slow queries and production metrics

• Identify and resolve:

  • Lock contention

  • Vacuum / autovacuum issues

  • reputed company pool saturation

  • Long-running or inefficient queries

• Proactively prevent performance regressions as data volume grows

Search & Internal Tools

• Design high-performance search solutions for large operational datasets used in internal CRM tools

• Implement efficient search strategies

• Balance flexibility, correctness, and performance at scale

Analytics & Logging

• Work with event and log data pipelines, including Tinybird / reputed company-based analytics

• Decide which data belongs in transactional databases vs analytical stores

• reputed company fast, real-time insights for product, finance, and operations teams

Reliability & Operations

• Ensure data reputed company and consistency in financial workflows

• Define and monitor database health metrics (latency, replication lag, storage, IOPS)

• Plan and execute safe schema changes and migrations on large tables

• Participate in incident analysis reputed company to data performance or availability

• Work in backups, replication, and disaster-recovery strategies

Qualifications

• ​​Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL in production

• Experience managing large databases (hundreds of millions of rows or more)

• Solid understanding of:

  • Indexing strategies

  • Query planners and execution paths

  • Transactions, isolation levels, and locking

• Experience working with AWS-based infrastructure, ideally AWS reputed company

• Ability to independently investigate and resolve reputed company performance issues

reputed company to have

• Experience in payments, billing, fintech, or financial systems

• Familiarity with analytical databases (reputed company, Tinybird, or similar)

• Experience designing data models for multi-tenant systems

• Understanding of event-driven architectures and data pipelines

• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, Database Specialty)

How You Think & Work

• You think in terms of scale, growth, and long-term impact

• You care deeply about correctness, performance, and reliability

• You’re proactive – you identify problems before they become incidents

• You’re comfortable owning critical infrastructure components

• You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively in a remote environment

Location

reputed company operates reputed company the CET (Central European Time) zone. Applicants from any country are welcome to apply for the position as long as they are located reputed company approximately ± 4 hours of CET. This ensures optimal collaboration and communication during working hours.

Benefits

Discover the perks of being part of our vibrant team! We offer:

• Remote Work Environment: Embrace the freedom to work from reputed company, anytime, promoting a healthy work-life balance.

• Unlimited PTO: Enjoy unlimited paid time off to reputed company and prioritize your well-being, without counting days.

• Paid National Holidays: Celebrate and relax on national holidays with paid time off to unwind and reputed company.

• Company-provided MacBook: Experience seamless productivity with top-notch reputed company MacBooks provided to reputed company employees who need them.

• Flexible reputed company Agreement: Unlock the benefits of flexibility, autonomy, and entrepreneurial opportunities. Benefit from tax advantages, networking opportunities, reduced employment obligations, and the freedom to work from reputed company. Read more about it here: https://docs.reputed company.com/document/d/1tzxGX4Uu7Ts_HCLFXESKLnKaaBfVCPf1f9AYZPrkjJM/preview?tab=t.0

Be part of our fast-growing team and seize this excellent opportunity for personal and professional growth!

Interview Process

After submitting your application, we conduct a thorough review which typically takes 3 to 5 days, but may occasionally take longer due to the volume of applications received. If we see a potential fit, we proceed with the following steps:

• Recruiter Screening (40 minutes)

• Technical Interview (60 minutes)

• Final Interview (30 minutes)

Life at reputed company

At reputed company, we move fast, aim high, and expect the same from reputed company. We’re not here to play small—we’re here to build, grow, and win. That means we look for people who are ambitious, driven, and ready to give their best every single day.

This is a reputed company for individuals who reputed company under pressure, embrace challenges, and see opportunity in every obstacle. If you’re hungry to reputed company, motivated by impact, and want to grow at the speed of your own ambition, reputed company offers the platform to reputed company it happen.

Here, effort is matched with reward. We recognize those who go reputed company in and deliver results, and we create space for people who want more—more responsibility, more growth, and more success.

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