Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yuno is building the payment infrastructure that allows companies to participate in the global market. They are seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage the data layer for payment processing systems and oversee the reliability and performance of production systems.
Responsibilities
- Database administration and optimization — own maintenance, patching, and upgrades across our database fleet; lead performance tuning, indexing strategy, and query optimization for mission-critical, high-throughput systems
- Reliability, backup, and recovery — design and own backup/recovery strategy, replication, and disaster recovery planning to guarantee stability and data integrity for payment processing workloads
- Infrastructure as Code — automate database provisioning and maintenance with Terraform, working within the same IaC practices as the rest of the infrastructure team
- Data migration and conversion — plan and execute complex data migration and conversion routines for production systems, verifying successful completion with minimal risk and downtime
- Monitoring and performance — build the dashboards, alerts, and monitors that surface database health and performance issues before they become incidents
- Technical leadership — mentor engineers on database best practices, provide expertise on deployment and architecture planning, and proactively communicate risks, issues, and next steps to the team
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 4+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator in production environments
- Deep PostgreSQL expertise — performance tuning, indexing strategies, replication, and query optimization at scale
- AWS — solid experience with RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, and S3; understanding of networking fundamentals for database connectivity
- CDC (Change Data Capture) integrations
- Database security — access controls, encryption at rest and in transit, auditing, and compliance best practices for sensitive payment data
- Infrastructure as Code — Terraform experience, with a preference for infrastructure reviewed in PRs rather than clicked in consoles
- Python proficiency for automation and scripting
- Proven backup/recovery and disaster recovery planning for critical systems
- Distributed systems debugging — experience diagnosing data-related issues and cascading failures in production
- English — advanced proficiency required
- NoSQL experience (MongoDB, Redis) — knowing when to use SQL vs. NoSQL and how to tune each
- Observability tooling — Datadog fluency or equivalent (dashboards, monitors, log pipelines)
- Docker — container lifecycle basics as they relate to database deployments
- Experience in the payments industry
- Spanish — proficiency preferred
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation.
- Remote Work – You can work from everywhere!
- Home Office Bonus – A one-time allowance to help you create your ideal home office.
- Work Equipment.
- Stock Options.
- Health Plan wherever you are.
- Flexible Days Off.
- Language, Professional, and Personal Growth courses.
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