Senior Database Administrator
Worldwide
Senior Database Administrator (LATAM) Digis is a European IT company with 250+ specialists delivering complex products for 70+ clients across the U.S., Europe, and Canada. We work in a remote-first format and focus on long-term collaboration, transparent processes, and stable conditions for our team. About the Project Our client is a US-based SaaS platform in the eCommerce intelligence and brand protection domain. The platform helps large brands with market monitoring, pricing enforcement, analytics, and automated decision-making at scale. The product has been on the market for around 10 years and is currently going through deep architectural modernization. This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys database performance optimization, ETL improvements, complex SQL tuning, and working on scalable data-intensive systems. Responsibilities Optimize database systems for maximum speed, throughput, and efficiency. Analyze execution plans and identify database performance bottlenecks. Rewrite and optimize complex SQL queries. Perform hands-on query tuning across PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, and Yellowbrick. Configure and improve indexing strategies. Tune memory allocation and database performance settings. Identify and resolve hardware, infrastructure, or resource-related bottlenecks. Work with large data footprints and improve overall database performance and stability. Requirements 5+ years of experience as Database Administrator 3+ years of hands-on experience with SQL and database optimization using PostgreSQL/ MySQL. Experience with Snowflake or Yellowbrick. English B2 Spanish B2 We offer 20 paid vacation days per year 5 paid sick leaves per year (no medical documents required) Personalized development plan + training compensation English courses compensation Work equipment if needed Flat, transparent internal communication Ability to switch between projects and technologies inside Digis Full accounting and legal support Free corporate psychologist sessions
- More than 30 hrs/weekHourly
- 6+ monthsDuration
- ExpertExperience Level
- Remote Job
- Ongoing projectProject Type
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- UkraineLarnaca3:42 PM
- $6.5K total spent5 hires, 0 active
- 260 hours
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