Postgres DBA

About EdgeTier:
At EdgeTier, we help customer care teams by seamlessly blending AI, automation and people. Our award-winning technology helps some of the most innovative companies in the world to deliver better quality customer service and to understand their customers better.
We have a huge opportunity to seize. We hope that you can help us get there.

Are you a PostgreSQL DBA ready to make a major impact in a fast-growing company with vast data volumes and exciting technical challenges? EdgeTier is seeking a PostgreSQL Database Administrator who will take ownership of scaling our databases, optimising performance, and supporting our team in delivering top-quality products and services to our clients.

About the Role

As our first dedicated PostgreSQL DBA, you’ll be the expert at EdgeTier, responsible for maintaining, optimising, and expanding our databases. You’ll work closely with our CTO, Head of Engineering, and Product Managers to overcome complex data challenges and elevate our product capabilities. You’ll ensure our databases operate at peak efficiency, increase our application performance, and play a key role in architecture discussions. If you’re looking to have a lasting impact in a rapidly scaling environment, this role is for you.

What You'll Do

• Drive the optimisation and efficiency of our database systems.

• Engage in forward-thinking solutions to scale our data infrastructure.

• Support reporting improvements that deliver real insights for clients.

• Ensure the stability and reliability of database operations.

How Your Time Will Be Spent:

• Query/performance optimisation: 30%

• Support developers in writing complex and/or performance critical queries: 15%

• Help with CI/CD improvements (e.g. improve our testing environments): 10%

• Meetings about architectural decisions requiring database schema changes: 10%

• Planning and changes for future scaling: 10%

• Set up and support external access for clients: 5%

• System monitoring: 5%

• Data migrations: 5%

• Cost analysis reduction: 5%

• Database upgrades/maintenance: 5%
  

Who You Are

You’re an experienced PostgreSQL DBA with a strong track record in managing and optimising databases in a production environment. You take ownership of your work, thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, and enjoy solving complex data challenges.

You'll Need:

• 5+ years of DBA experience, with 3+ years in PostgreSQL specifically.

• Experience in managing partitioned PostgreSQL databases.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with AWS RDS and/or columnar databases (e.g., Redshift).

The Ideal Candidate:

• You see projects through to completion and ensure high standards in your work.

• You’re adaptable and respond well to changes and new challenges.

• You work well with others and actively collaborate to achieve shared goals.

Why Join EdgeTier?

As EdgeTier’s first DBA, you’ll shape the future of our database architecture and have a tangible impact on our product capabilities. You’ll take on interesting projects, such as setting up external data access for clients and scaling our reporting infrastructure. If you’re looking to bring your expertise into a fast-growing startup, where you can make a real difference, this is the role for you!

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and bonus to round out your compensation package.

• Stock options: we offer stock to all staff. As a rapidly growing investor-backed startup, the value of your stock will rise significantly as the company grows!

• Future security: we offer a company-matched pension plan to all of our Ireland-based employees.

• Learning budget: all staff have a budget available to spend as they please on educational content such as online courses, conferences or events.

• Health & Wellbeing: we've got you covered with our company-supported health insurance plan.

• Opportunity to be part of something great! We are scaling up with a fantastic product, and want you to be part of our success, growing with us in your career.

EdgeTier provides a safe environment that encourages personal and professional growth, nurtures trust, facilitates the development of new values, and fosters long-lasting connections. We take great pride in being an Equal Employment Opportunity employer at EdgeTier. We are committed to a discrimination-free workplace and do not engage in employment discrimination based on race, religion, colour, national origin, ancestry, membership in the travelling community, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. This policy encompasses all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training.

Agencies: Please note that we have an internal sourcing model, and do not require agency assistance. Unsolicited CVs will not be accepted.