Database CloudOps

📋 Job Overview

Application
Salmon is a technology-driven financial company building a banking and lending platform across Southeast Asia, starting in the Philippines.
7M+ app downloads. 2M+ monthly active users. 7000+ partner stores. US$350M+ raised from top-tier investors.
Here, you get real ownership from day one, high standards, and direct communication. You'll work alongside a team that combines deep local knowledge and experience scaling regulated financial companies from scratch.
If you want to solve complex problems at scale and directly impact how millions of people access and manage money, come build with us.
Southeast Asia's fintech moment starts here.

🏢 About Salmon

Salmon is a technology-driven financial company building a banking and lending platform across Southeast Asia, starting in the Philippines. We are backed by top-tier investors and have achieved significant milestones, including 7M+ app downloads, 2M+ monthly active users, and 7000+ partner stores.

🎯 The Role

You will be responsible for supporting and administering a high-load database, performing zero-downtime database migrations, and proactively identifying and resolving database-related issues and performance bottlenecks. You will collaborate with the development team to address tasks related to database architecture and query optimization, and participate in database architecture optimization, performance tuning, and bottleneck analysis.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Support and administration of a high-load database (approximately 20,000 transactions per minute)
• Performing and maintaining zero-downtime database migrations (seamless migrations)
• Proactive identification and resolution of database-related issues and performance bottlenecks
• Collaboration with the development team to address tasks related to database architecture and query optimization
• Configuration and maintenance of database PostgreSQL infrastructure in AWS (RDS, Aurora), managed through Terraform
• Participation in database architecture optimization, performance tuning, bottleneck analysis, and proposing improvements
• Handling tasks related to incident and performance management; participation in new projects and services involving databases
• Active involvement in the development process: taking initiative to identify issues and propose tasks, not just handling incoming tickets

📌 Required Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of professional experience in software engineering or data engineering (depending on the role)
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL — query optimization, indexing strategies, replication, and performance troubleshooting
• Experience working with large-scale data systems, ETL pipelines, or distributed backend systems
• Solid understanding of SQL performance tuning, schema design, and transaction management
• Hands-on experience with Linux systems, monitoring tools, and automation scripting
• Familiarity with AWS services (Aurora, RDS, Redshift, kafka debezium connectors) and similar cloud environments
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

⭐ Desirable Experience

No specific desirable experience mentioned.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information mentioned.