Senior Database Engineer
Gaming Innovation Group1 month ago
Marbella, SpainSenior
Responsibilities
- Build, evolve, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL and MySQL systems across on-premises and RDS environments.
- Automate database provisioning, configuration management, and deployment workflows using Ansible and Terraform.
- Configure and troubleshoot multi-region and multi-node replication across PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Optimize queries, indexes, engine parameters, and schema designs for low-latency performance.
- Implement backup, encryption, disaster recovery testing, security, and data integrity procedures.
- Monitor database health, perform capacity planning, and apply maintenance updates, patches, and engine upgrades.
- Document database policies, schemas, operational standards, and runbooks.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and facilitate knowledge sharing.
- Provide Tier 3 support and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation when necessary.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on production experience as a Database Engineer or Database Administrator.
- Deep proficiency with PostgreSQL and MySQL, including architecture, parameter tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Practical experience with Ansible and Terraform for automation and infrastructure provisioning.
- Hands-on experience with database high-availability solutions such as Patroni, PgBouncer, Galera Cluster, or MySQL InnoDB Cluster/Group Replication.
- Experience managing latency-sensitive, high-concurrency database deployments.
- Expertise in point-in-time recovery, logical and physical backups, security hardening, and data integrity checks.
- Strong proficiency in Bash, Shell, or Python scripting and experience with DBA tools and monitoring suites.
- Experience in i-gaming, fintech, or e-commerce is highly preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model.
- International health insurance.
- Health and wellbeing package of 350 EUR per year.
- Birthday day off.
- One Me Time day off per year.
- Career development opportunities.
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About Gaming Innovation Group
Gaming Innovation Group builds B2B software for the online gambling industry, including an iGaming platform, managed sportsbook, data tools, and risk/odds services. It licenses these to online and land-based operators in regulated markets, typically on recurring SaaS and revenue-share models. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in St. Julian’s, Malta, the company is publicly listed in Stockholm.