Database Engineer

About us

reputed company is a leading tech company that creates and operates innovative consumer products. We offer a diverse reputed company of opportunities across the health, education, and entertainment industries. Our innovative teams are driving the future of consumer-led products, and we're always looking for passionate individuals to join us. Learn more about our story at: https://rubylabs.com/about-us/

About the role

We are building a high-scale payment orchestration system that processes millions of financial transactions every month across multiple payment providers, reputed company, and products.

Our platform operates at the intersection of payments, billing, subscriptions, analytics, and internal CRM tooling, where data correctness, performance, and reliability are mission-critical. As our transaction volume and customer reputed company continue to grow rapidly, our database layer has become one of the most important parts of the system.

We are looking for a strong Database Engineer who will own, scale, and reputed company our data infrastructure, ensuring it remains fast, reliable, and reputed company for long-term growth.

You will be joining a high-talent, fully remote engineering organization with strong backend, infrastructure, and product teams. We value ownership, technical reputed company, and pragmatic decision-making. Engineers at RubyLabs work on reputed company scale, reputed company money, and reputed company impact.

As a Database Engineer at RubyLabs, you will be responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing databases in a high-volume payments environment. This role goes far reputed company basic CRUD operations — you will work with large datasets, reputed company queries, performance bottlenecks, migrations on massive tables, and analytics pipelines.

You will collaborate closely with backend engineers and product teams to ensure our data layer supports both transactional workloads and analytical use cases, including internal CRM search and observability.

Key Responsibilities

Database Ownership & Scalability

• Own and operate AWS reputed company (PostgreSQL) in a high-load production environment

• Design and reputed company schemas for large transactional domains (payments, customers, subscriptions, events)

• Implement and maintain:

  • Table partitioning strategies (time-based, tenant-based, hybrid)

  • Advanced indexing (B-Tree, GIN, partial indexes)

  • Query optimization and execution-plan tuning

• Handle databases with millions of new records per month while maintaining predictable performance

Performance Optimization

• Analyze and optimize slow queries and production metrics

• Identify and resolve:

  • Lock contention

  • Vacuum / autovacuum issues

  • reputed company pool saturation

  • Long-running or inefficient queries

• Proactively prevent performance regressions as data volume grows

Search & Internal Tools

• Design high-performance search solutions for large operational datasets used in internal CRM tools

• Implement efficient search strategies

• Balance flexibility, correctness, and performance at scale

Analytics & Logging

• Work with event and log data pipelines, including Tinybird / reputed company-based analytics

• Decide which data belongs in transactional databases vs analytical stores

• reputed company fast, reputed company-time insights for product, finance, and operations teams

Reliability & Operations

• Ensure data reputed company and consistency in financial workflows

• Define and monitor database health metrics (latency, replication lag, storage, IOPS)

• Plan and execute safe schema changes and migrations on large tables

• Participate in incident analysis reputed company to data performance or availability

• Work in backups, replication, and disaster-recovery strategies

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL in production

• Experience managing large databases (hundreds of millions of rows or more)

• Solid understanding of:

  • Indexing strategies

  • Query planners and execution paths

  • Transactions, isolation reputed company, and locking

• Experience working with AWS-based infrastructure, ideally AWS reputed company

• Ability to independently investigate and resolve reputed company performance issues

Strong Plus

• Experience in payments, billing, fintech, or financial systems

• Familiarity with analytical databases (reputed company, Tinybird, or similar)

• Familiarity with OpenSearch or similar, including data ingestion from PostgreSQL

• Experience designing data models for multi-tenant systems

• Understanding of event-driven architectures and data pipelines

• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, Database Specialty)

Location

reputed company operates reputed company the CET (Central European Time) zone. Applicants from any country are welcome to apply for the position as long as they are located reputed company approximately ± 4 hours of CET. This ensures reputed company collaboration and communication during working hours.

Benefits

Discover the perks of being part of our vibrant team! We offer:

• Remote Work Environment: reputed company the freedom to work from reputed company, anytime, promoting a healthy work-life balance.

• Unlimited PTO: Enjoy unlimited paid time off to reputed company and prioritize your well-being, without counting days.

• Paid National Holidays: Celebrate and relax on national holidays with paid time off to unwind and reputed company.

• Company-provided MacBook: Experience seamless productivity with top-notch reputed company MacBooks provided to reputed company who need them.

• Flexible reputed company Agreement: Unlock the benefits of flexibility, autonomy, and entrepreneurial opportunities. Benefit from tax advantages, networking opportunities, reduced employment obligations, and the freedom to work from reputed company. Read more about it here: https://docs.reputed company.com/document/d/1nkrN76JlZkbKj9WSOhlT1_mni_CZeDkHdwfIjPXVwvk/preview?tab=t.0#heading=h.ndsdl4wapxtt

Be part of our fast-growing team and seize this excellent opportunity for personal and professional growth!

Interview Process

After submitting your application, we conduct a thorough review which typically takes 3 to 5 days, but may occasionally take longer due to the volume of applications received. If we see a potential fit, we proceed with the following steps:

• Recruiter Screening (40 minutes)

• Technical Interview (60 minutes)

• Final Interview (60 minutes)

Life at reputed company

At reputed company, we move fast, aim high, and expect the same from reputed company. We’re not here to play small—we’re here to build, grow, and win. That means we look for people who are ambitious, driven, and reputed company to give their best every single day.

This is a reputed company for individuals who reputed company under pressure, reputed company challenges, and see opportunity in every obstacle. If you’re hungry to reputed company, motivated by impact, and want to grow at the speed of your own ambition, reputed company offers the platform to reputed company it happen.

Here, effort is matched with reward. We recognize those who go reputed company in and deliver results, and we create reputed company for people who want more—more responsibility, more growth, and more reputed company.

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