Lead the design, optimization, and strategic direction of PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS/Aurora for a high-growth company handling millions of daily transactions. Own performance tuning, disaster recovery, upgrades, and cross-team PostgreSQL expertise to set industry-wide standards. Shape long-term data infrastructure with hands-on technical authority and influence over engineering practices.
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Senior PostgreSQL DBA (AWS/RDS)
Netherlands | Up to €120k | Hybrid, 1 day/week in office | Relocation support where appropriate
This one's a bit different from the usual "DBA" brief.
Growing company handling millions of transactions a day. The data layer is starting to feel the strain: query bottlenecks, oversized instances, and PostgreSQL knowledge gaps spread across teams. So they're bringing in someone senior to actually own it, not just firefight it.
This isn't a "keep the lights on" role. It's real technical authority, the standards you set here shape how every engineering team builds on data going forward.
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What you'd actually own:
- PostgreSQL on AWS RDS and Aurora: performance, indexing, schema design, end to end
- Backup and disaster recovery strategy, including restore testing and proper RTO/RPO targets
- Major-version upgrades and zero-downtime migrations, on systems that genuinely can't afford downtime
- Being the go-to PostgreSQL voice for backend and platform engineers: training, playbooks, raising the bar across teams
- A seat in shaping long-term PostgreSQL strategy: tooling, observability, cost-efficiency
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What they're looking for:
- 5+ years in database engineering/administration, PostgreSQL-first, with 4+ years in high-availability production environments
- 3+ years running PostgreSQL on AWS (RDS or Aurora): backups, replication, monitoring, performance tuning
- Genuinely comfortable in PostgreSQL internals, planner, vacuuming, WAL, query plans, not just someone who's read about them
- Cloud-native/SaaS background, ideally microservices
- Git, Terraform, CI/CD, and confident enough reading Python/ORM code (SQLAlchemy, Django ORM) to have an informed opinion on it
Nice to have, not dealbreakers: connection pooling experience (RDS Proxy) at high concurrency, or contributions to open-source Postgres tooling.
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Why it's worth a conversation:
- Up to €120k, plus relocation support where applicable
- Hybrid, just one day a week on-site in Eindhoven
- Real influence, this is a role that sets the standard, not one that follows it
- €2,000 annual learning budget
If you're the person other engineers already come to with the tricky Postgres questions, and you'd rather fix the root cause than patch around it, I'd like to hear from you.
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