Database Platform EngineerVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• You do not need to know every technology we use. We are looking for someone with a solid database foundation, practical problem-solving skills, and motivation to grow into demanding production environments.
• Some hands-on experience with database administration, database operations, database support, or database development.
• Practical experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL.
• Understanding of database concepts such as indexing, query performance, backups, replication, permissions, schemas, and availability.
• Experience with cloud environments, ideally Azure.
• Interest in learning enterprise database platforms and operating databases in high-availability, business-critical environments.
• Ability to investigate technical problems systematically and communicate findings clearly to engineers, analysts, or other stakeholders.
• Basic scripting or automation experience using tools such as Bash, Python, Terraform, or similar.
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, logs, metrics, or operational tooling.
• Basic understanding of ETL, data integration, or data warehousing concepts.
• Basic experience with PL/SQL or other database development is a benefit.
• Curiosity, ownership, and willingness to learn technologies beyond traditional DBA work, including DevOps practices, cloud-native services, and lakehouse/data platform technologies.

What you’ll do

• You will work with experienced engineers on the operation, improvement, and automation of database platforms in cloud environments.
• Operating and supporting database platforms in cloud environments.
• Working with PostgreSQL and other database technologies used by data engineering, analytics, and trading systems.
• Learning and gradually taking ownership of enterprise-grade database environments.
• Monitoring database availability, performance, capacity, backups, and security-related configuration.
• Troubleshooting database errors, slow queries, resource consumption, and data availability issues in cooperation with developers, data engineers, and analysts.
• Supporting performance tuning activities, including query analysis, indexing, execution plans, and resource usage investigation.
• Helping improve ETL and data processing workflows by identifying bottlenecks and reliability issues.
• Maintaining database structures, access patterns, operational procedures, and documentation.
• Writing or improving scripts and automation for recurring DBA tasks, monitoring, deployments, and operational checks.
• Participating in cloud infrastructure and database platform improvements, including automation, observability, and reliability practices.
• Continuously learning new database and data storage technologies and applying them where they improve scalability, reliability, or maintainability.

About the position

We are a technology company and trading house using data, software, and quantitative models to support market-beating trading strategies and help balance the power grid. Our engineering teams build and operate modern platforms for data-intensive, low-latency environments. As a Database Platform Engineer, you will help us operate, improve, and automate database and data storage technologies used by developers, data engineers, analysts, and traders.

Benefits

• Brand new office in the city center – Masarycka.
• Competitive salary package with the possibility of a yearly bonus.
• 25 days of paid holiday.
• Flexible working hours and home-office options.
• High-end workstation.
• Sponsored lunch in the office. Every workday.
• Free snacks at the office.
• Multisport Card – fully paid by the company.
• Colleagues who are absolute experts in what they do.