Da Nang I Senior Database Engineer

Role Purpose

The Senior Database Engineer will lead the design, management, and optimisation of company's‬ database infrastructure to ensure stability, scalability, and performance. In addition to‬ proactively identifying and initiating improvements, you will work cross-functionally, partnering‬ closely with engineering teams to enhance their existing database practices, support‬ application development, and provide technical leadership for operational and product‬‭ initiatives, balancing requirements, quality, cost and time.‬

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This role combines advanced technical expertise in database systems—particularly AWS Aurora‬ (PostgreSQL)—with a practical approach to performance tuning, data management, and high‬ availability strategies.‬

1.Database engineering and operations

• Contribute to the design and ongoing management of AWS RDS Aurora (PostgreSQL)‬clusters across our company‬
• ‬Manage replication across clusters to ensure resilience, data integrity, and performance‬ in-line with business requirements.‬
• Monitor and tune database performance, including optimising queries, indexes, and‬ schema to support scalable and efficient access patterns.‬
• Define and implement partitioning strategies for large datasets to improve performance‬ and maintainability
• Maintain and improve bulk data processing and transformation strategies.‬
• ‬‭Contribute to observability tooling by ensuring meaningful metrics, logging and alerting‬ are in place.‬
• ‬‭Support backup, disaster recovery, and high availability planning and testing.‬
• Identify and implement data archival strategies in-line with business requirements.‬

2.Design and architecture

• Collaborate with engineering teams to design schemas, indexing approaches, and data‬ access patterns that balance performance, cost, flexibility, and maintainability.‬
• Maintain database design standards, patterns and other resources to enable the‬ engineering team to make informed design decisions.‬

3.Team collaboration and leadership

• Mentor engineers and uplift database engineering capability across engineering teams.‬
• ‬‭Working with engineering teams, participate in code reviews, support technical design,‬ and delivery.‬
• ‬‭Provide guidance on best practices for data access and contribute to design and‬ architecture across product delivery teams.‬
• Drive initiatives to address database concerns and improvements‬
• Be part of an on-call roster to support critical systems and production environments.‬
• Participates constructively in team meetings and retros‬
• Has a positive net effect on team harmony‬
• Educates the team on emerging technologies and approaches that are relevant to‬ business‬

• Proven experience managing AWS RDS Aurora (PostgreSQL) clusters at scale.‬
• ‬‭Deep expertise in query performance tuning, index design, bulk data operations, and or‬ other approaches to delivering high-performance applications..‬
• Experience with schema design in complex transactional systems.‬
• Experience with database and schema migrations.‬
• Practical knowledge of replication strategies and high availability setups.‬
• Strong understanding of partitioning, ETL/ELT workflows, and data lifecycle‬ management.‬
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and automation (e.g. Terraform, AWS CDK).‬
• Experience with production support responsibilities and incident response.‬
• Has working knowledge of the entire stack of a large scale web environment and the‬ implications of that for database systems, including: Web servers, proxies, load‬ balancers, front-end and back-end technologies‬
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate effectively with‬ other technical team members and key stakeholders across the business‬
• Effectively takes and gives constructive feedback to work towards a better solution‬
• Is professionally self aware and can objectively and dispassionately evaluate their own‬ strengths and weaknesses‬
• Pro-actively seeks and acts upon feedback on their performance from stakeholders and‬ managers‬
• ‭Engages with the technology community and helps grow our company‬ as a technical brand‬
• Displays honesty, openness, fairness, transparency and integrity in line with our company‬‬ value‬.‭
• Strong English communication skills (both verbal & written), especially in the global software development environment.

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