Cloud Database Architect

📋 Job Overview

Our client is a well-funded, early-stage AI company building a large-scale data platform used to train, fine-tune, and evaluate the next generation of AI models. As the company continues to scale its production database environments, they are seeking a technically deep database professional with specialized PostgreSQL expertise and strong cloud engineering capabilities.

🏢 About [Company]

Our client is an early-stage AI company focused on developing a large-scale data platform for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating next-generation AI models.

🎯 The Role

The Cloud Database Architect (PostgreSQL /Cloud Database Specialist) will own, scale, and continuously optimize the company’s production database environments. This role requires deep, hands-on PostgreSQL expertise combined with strong computer science fundamentals and cloud database engineering experience.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain PostgreSQL environments in the cloud.
• Manage database configuration and parameter tuning.
• Support high-availability database environments.
• Manage storage, patching, and version upgrades.
• Maintain stable and reliable PostgreSQL production environments.
• Manage, scale, and deploy relational databases in cloud environments such as AWS RDS.
• Maintain performant and cost-efficient cloud database environments.
• Design and maintain the database access layer.
• Manage roles, privileges, connection pooling, and authentication.
• Implement and maintain least-privilege access models.
• Lead database and cloud migration projects from planning through completion.
• Scale distributed PostgreSQL environments to support growing workloads.
• Implement and maintain replication, clustering, and multi-node database setups.
• Continuously optimize PostgreSQL performance.
• Implement and maintain database backup strategies.
• Monitor database health, performance, and capacity.
• Enforce database security best practices.
• Create and maintain technical runbooks.
• Document database governance policies.
• Partner with engineering on capacity planning and platform stability.
• Use AI tools to improve engineering productivity within established governance requirements.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience.
• Deep, specialized PostgreSQL expertise.
• Strong experience managing, scaling, and deploying relational databases in cloud environments such as AWS RDS.
• Demonstrated experience leading and successfully delivering database and cloud migration projects.
• Proven experience scaling production database environments.
• Experience with multi-node database setups, including replication, clustering, and high availability.
• Experience designing database access layers and governance frameworks.
• Strong understanding of database system theory and computer science fundamentals.
• Strong cloud database management and deployment capabilities.
• Experience with database performance optimization, including indexing, vacuuming, query efficiency, resource utilization, storage, and parameter tuning.
• Experience implementing database backup, snapshot, point-in-time, and recovery strategies.
• Experience with database security, encryption, network isolation, and access controls.
• Scripting experience using Bash, Python, or similar technologies for administrative automation.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or similar.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience supporting high-traffic, mission-critical PostgreSQL environments.
• Experience with Aiven managed PostgreSQL services.
• Experience designing and working with sharded and distributed databases.

🎁 Benefits

Final compensation is set after evaluating experience and location. The salary range is $3.3K – $3.7K per month.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This role is open to candidates based in LATAM, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Candidates must be available to work during U.S. business hours aligned with the client’s time zone.