Senior Database Administrator

This is a hybrid position based at our HQ in Eindhoven (3 days per week at the office)

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Were Sendcloud Europes #1 shipping platform for e-commerce. We help online retailers, marketplaces, and fulfillment companies scale their operations and deliver standout shipping experiences. Over , e-commerce businesses trust us to simplify and supercharge their shipping. And were just getting started.

What can you expect from this role?

While our engineering teams build innovative features and own their services, we face increasing complexity at the data layer. Challenges with query efficiency, performance bottlenecks, oversized database instances, and a lack of cross-team DB knowledge are emerging as we scale.

Were now hiring a Senior Hands-on DBA to join the Platform Services domain and to strengthen our core data practices, enhance reliability, and raise the engineering bar across the organization.

This role is not just another DBA. We're looking for someone who :

Owns our database stack and general data flows technically and operationally

Can get hands dirty - optimize queries, monitor performance, tune resources

Drives cross-engineering education and enablement - helping backend devs level up their DB hygiene

Brings architecture-level thinking to design resilient, cost-efficient, and scalable data solutions, including caching, streams, SQL and No-SQL solutions

What will you do in this role?

Hands-On Ownership

Operate and improve our PostgreSQL clusters running on AWS RDS and Aurora

Analyze and optimize complex queries, indexes, and schemas

Advise on and improve our No-SQL and caching solutions, primarily Redis / Valkey

Operate and maintain our stream and events platforms using NATS and RabbitMQ

Monitor data platforms health (slow queries, replication lag, resource utilization) and tune performance

Collaborate with Platform and Product engineers on observability, alerting and backups

Architecture & Engineering Leadership

Design and advocate for scalable DB schemas and solutions in a microservices environment as well as for larger applications

Work closely with feature teams on data design patterns, DB scaling challenges, read / write strategies and data migrations

Guide decisions around caching, partitioning, denormalization, replication, etc.

Control usage of the right data tools for the right job, such as NoSQL datastores and event systems

Cross-Engineering Enablement

Be a driving force of DB Engineering Enablement program for engineering teams

Training, playbooks, checklists, DB Hygiene guidelines

Act as a trusted advisor to Engineers in feature teams

Evangelize performance awareness and operational excellence for data platforms

Collaboration & Innovation

Work with our Platform and Product Engineering teams to ensure data reliability, performance, and scalability

Influence our long-term data architecture strategy, including tooling, observability, and cost-efficiency

Stay on top of emerging PostgreSQL and AWS RDS capabilities, bringing innovative practices to the team

Our perfect match

8+ years of professional experience in database engineering, administration, or architecture roles

5+ years of hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, ideally in high-availability, production environments

3+ years operating PostgreSQL on AWS (RDS or Aurora), including backup strategies, replication, monitoring, and performance tuning

3+ years working in cloud-native / SaaS environments, preferably in a microservices-based architecture

Strong command of PostgreSQL internals (planner, vacuuming, WAL, query plans)

Proven track record of solving query and performance bottlenecks at scale

Experience designing or evolving database schemas for high-traffic applications

Solid experience with monitoring tools (e.g., pg_stat_statements, pgBadger, Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.)

Familiarity with caching strategies (Redis / Valkey) and message queues (RabbitMQ) in data flows

Experience with infrastructure as code and DevOps practices (Git, Terraform, CI / CD pipelines, etc.)

Understanding of Kubernetes-based environments and how DBs interact with containerized workloads

Awareness of cost optimization techniques in AWS RDS

Comfortable reading Python application code using ORMs (e.g., SQLAlchemy, Django ORM)

Ability to work alongside developers and speak their language - schema design, migrations, query structure

Strong cross-functional collaboration experience with Platform, Backend teams and Staff / Principal Engineers

Demonstrated ability to teach, mentor, or run enablement programs internally (e.g., DB best practices, workshops)

Nice to Have / Differentiators

Experience defining data governance, versioning, or lifecycle policies

Exposure to analytical DBs (e.g., Redshift, ClickHouse, Snowflake)

Contributions to open-source PostgreSQL tooling or internal libraries

You share our core values :

No bullshit : we dont like big egos; we like honesty, transparency & openness. Share your mistakes with us and learn from them!

Grow & Win : Keep on learning and improving from each other mistakes and by actively searching for ways to keep on developing your skills.

Have fun : you are not afraid to be yourself, and you love to be surrounded by your awesome colleagues!

Benefits

Working in an internationally oriented, fast-growing, certified Great Place to Work!

A good salary that grows within the company and your accomplishments

holidays per year on a full-time basis + a free holiday on / around your birthday

After 3 years of employment, you get a sabbatical of 4 weeks from us

Keep growing with a study budget of 0,- per year!

Stay fit with our office gym

Pension scheme

A flexible hybrid working model (around 3 days in the office) and a dedicated budget to set up your home office

Access to many discount programs, shop till you drop!