Air Apps

Air Apps

Database Administrator (DBA)

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 482 days ago
PythonBashSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisCassandraDynamoDBAWSGCPAzureCI/CDDevOpsCybersecurityCompliance

About the role

  • As a Database Administrator (DBA) at Air Apps, you will be responsible for managing, optimizing, and securing large-scale, complex databases.
  • Your role will involve database tuning, backup and recovery strategies, monitoring, and ensuring data integrity while working with structured and unstructured data sources.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain high-performance database systems to support large-scale applications.
  • Optimize database queries, indexing strategies, and partitioning to enhance performance.
  • Manage and fine-tune SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB).
  • Implement database security policies, encryption, and access control to protect sensitive data.
  • Work closely with developers to optimize queries, schema design, and data modeling.
  • Perform capacity planning and monitor database growth trends.

Requirements

  • Around 4+ years of experience as a Database Administrator (DBA) or similar role.
  • Expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and/or NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
  • Strong knowledge of database optimization, indexing, partitioning, and replication.
  • Experience in performance tuning, query optimization, and troubleshooting slow queries.
  • Familiarity with database backup, recovery, failover, and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Experience with cloud database services (AWS RDS, Aurora, Google Cloud Spanner, Azure SQL).
  • Knowledge of scripting for automation (Python, Bash, SQL scripts).
  • Experience working with large, complex datasets and high-traffic applications.
  • Ability to work with DevOps teams to integrate databases into CI/CD workflows.

Benefits

  • Monitor database health, ensuring high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery.

Company info

  • At Air Apps, we believe in thinking bigger-and moving faster.
  • We're a family-founded company on a mission to create the world's first AI-powered Personal & Entrepreneurial Resource Planner (PRP), and we need your passion and ambition to help us change how people plan, work, and live.
  • Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 2018-and now with offices in both Lisbon and San Francisco-we've remained self-funded while reaching over 100 million downloads worldwide.
  • Our long-term focus drives us to challenge the status quo every day, pushing the boundaries of AI-driven solutions that truly make a difference.
  • Here, you'll be a creative force, shaping products that empower people across the globe.
  • Join us on this journey to redefine resource management-and change lives along the way.

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