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Senior Database Administrator
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
13 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Database Administrator
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality applications using React • Scale and tune high-throughput PostgreSQL clusters • Own PostgreSQL reliability fundamentals • Help build and operate vector data capabilities • Define production patterns for embeddings • Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, PITR, and backup approaches • Reduce manual operational work by building automation • Improve observability and alert quality • Enhance database security through robust access controls • Contribute to modern platform initiatives • Partner with service, AI, and platform teams • Participate in on-call rotations
Job Requirements
- 5+ years operating PostgreSQL in high-volume production environments
- Strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals and operations
- Hands-on experience with high availability and read scaling
- Experience with connection pooling and traffic management for PostgreSQL
- Practical VectorDB or vector search experience
- Ability to reason about vector index types and operational tradeoffs
- Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows
- Solid cloud, Linux, storage, and networking fundamentals
- Experience with containers and orchestration platforms
- Strong security instincts around access control, credential lifecycle, encryption
Benefits
- Kraken culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission
- Industry-leading security
- Crypto education
- World-class client support
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