Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate database systems on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and BigQuery, primarily on Google Cloud Platform.
• Maintain performance, availability, and security across LOCALiQ's production database estate.
• Ensure data safety and data integrity, including backup, recovery, and disaster recovery validation.
• Perform routine database operations such as upgrades, patching, schema changes, replication management, and capacity planning.
• Tune and troubleshoot slow queries, blocking, and replication issues alongside application teams.
• Review database changes to minimize deployment risk, and help teams design schemas and access patterns that scale.
• Automate recurring operational work through scripting, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in a scheduled 24x7 on-call rotation shared with other team members.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a Database Engineer, Database Administrator, or similar role.
• Hands-on experience managing production database infrastructure in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Working knowledge of relational databases — MySQL and/or PostgreSQL — including administration, replication, and backup/recovery.
• Strong SQL skills, including the ability to read, write, and optimize non-trivial queries.
• Programming experience in at least one language — Python preferred, but Go, Java, Ruby, or similar are all valuable.
• Experience with Git version control and working on code as part of a team.
• Sound judgment around change management, risk, and data integrity in production systems.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Curiosity, self-direction, and a bias toward automating repetitive work.

Preferred

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, particularly Cloud SQL, BigQuery, GKE, and Pub/Sub (equivalent AWS experience with RDS, Redshift, EKS, and SQS is welcome).
• Experience with BigQuery or another cloud data warehouse, including cost and performance optimization.
• Experience data modeling and data transformation tools like Dataform or DBT
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform), containers, and CI/CD practices such as test automation and automated deployments.
• Comfort working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Exposure to digital marketing or online advertising data (SEO/SEM) is an advantage.