Senior Database Administrator
YunoPayments company
ArgentinaSenior
Andreessen Horowitz
Tiger Global Management
Global PayTech Ventures
QuantumLight Capital
Monashees
Kaszek
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Senior Database Administrator to manage and optimize Yuno's data layer on AWS.
- •Yuno is looking for a Senior Database Administrator to own the data layer that powers our payment processing systems and the platform that provisions, deploys, and manages AI agents at scale on AWS.
- •You'll join the same infrastructure team responsible for the reliability, performance, and security of Yuno's production systems, working side by side with engineering and DevOps.
- •Key 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.
- •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.
- •Requirements 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.
- •solid experience with RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, and S3; understanding of networking fundamentals for database connectivity.
- •Infrastructure as Code
- •Terraform experience, with a preference for infrastructure reviewed in PRs rather than clicked in consoles.
- •advanced proficiency required.
Required skills
PostgreSQLAWSRDSEC2IAMS3TerraformPython
Nice-to-have skills
MongoDBRedisDockerKubernetesDatadog
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Competitive Compensation, Remote Work, Home Office Bonus, Work Equipment, Stock Options, Health Plan, Flexible Days Off, Language, Professional, and Personal Growth courses
Tech stack
PostgreSQLAWSRDSEC2IAMS3TerraformPythonMongoDBRedisDockerKubernetes