Database Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Govern and improve autonomous resolution: review how the system has resolved database incidents and maintenance requests, identify failure patterns, and continuously improve resolution logic, tuning policies and governance guardrails
• ▹Translate customer compliance, data governance and availability requirements into enforceable operational policy, keeping automated actions within safe, auditable and recoverable boundaries
• ▹Act as the expert escalation point: assess complex or novel database episodes (performance crises, schema-level incidents, corruption events) outside autonomous resolution, make fast decisions and feed learnings back into the system
• ▹Work directly with customers: build trust in autonomous resolution, advise on getting the most from the service and contribute to strategic database operations matters
• ▹Contribute to automated remediation workflows and self-healing database patterns that reduce manual intervention
• ▹Participate in an on-call rotation for complex episodes requiring human judgment outside business hours; the majority of incidents are handled autonomously

Requirements

• ▹Solid commercial experience across two or more of the following platforms: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, with a clear ambition to develop across all five
• ▹Strong experience with performance tuning, query optimisation, indexing strategies and capacity management in production environments
• ▹Sound understanding of database security, backup and recovery architecture and compliance requirements
• ▹Hands-on experience with cloud-managed database services such as Amazon RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL Database
• ▹Familiarity with AWS or Azure platform fundamentals: monitoring, alerting, identity and access management and infrastructure-as-code practices as they apply to database operations
• ▹Automation mindset: reach for a script or pipeline before a manual fix, with a track record of eliminating repetitive operational work
• ▹Comfort reading and adapting existing automation

Nice to have

• ▹Cloud database certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Database – Specialty or equivalent, or demonstrated depth in lieu of formal certification
• ▹Experience in a customer-facing technical role within a managed service or platform company
• ▹Familiarity with database observability tooling, event-driven architectures or AIOps platforms
• ▹Exposure to AI or ML-assisted automation applied to IT operations, including evaluating automated decisions and improving them over time

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salary and benefits package
• ▹Cutting-edge technology projects with major clients
• ▹Supportive, collaborative and innovative work environment
• ▹Continuous professional development opportunities
• ▹Remote working, B2B contract in Poland