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Senior Database Administrator
Verda Park
At Dexory, we believe that real time data will revolutionise the logistics industry. We are building the ultimate data insights platform that provides companies with unprecedented, real time access to their operations. Our autonomous data capture technology and insights generation capabilities help to measure, track and find goods across warehouses in real time, while building the ultimate digital twin of facilities.
Join us at a very exciting time of growth as we're significantly ramping up all areas of the business to lead the way in logistics data globally, backed by some of Europe's best VCs and driven by passion, curiosity and teamwork.
We value humility and we're as interested in your character as we are in your talent. Please apply, even if you feel you only meet part of our listed criteria. Diversity drives innovation and we offer an international and friendly work environment with an energetic company culture.
What does this role involve?
We're seeking an experienced PostgreSQL DBA to help us scale our rapidly growing warehouse robotics platform. We have a terabyte-scale database, and we're experiencing ongoing growth with associated scaling challenges.
We need someone who can help us architect and implement scaling strategies to support continued growth while maintaining performance, and take an advisory role on data architecture. We need you to have strong opinions one what type of scaling architectures (partitioning, sharding, data-warehousing / iceberg etc) are best in which situations, and have a proven track record of implementing these solutions at scale on already-deployed production systems.
This role will be mostly remote however will require 1 day per month minimum onsite at our Wallingford facilities. Unfortunately due to this, we cannot consider applicants outside of the UK and cannot provide sponsorship for this role.
Key Responsibilities
Immediate priorities (3-6 months)
Understand growth estimates and design scaling strategies for largest tables
Optimize existing indexes and query patterns
Establish monitoring and alerting for performance regressions
Develop capacity planning based on customer growth
Ongoing responsibilities
Query performance analysis and optimization for complex analytical workloads
Index strategy and maintenance
Design and implement data archival/retention policies
Tuning for tables with high write volume
Connection pooling and configuration tuning
Maintain backup/recovery strategy and testing
Working with development team on schema design and migrations
On-call rotation for database incidents
Benefits
Starting from the interview process and continuing into your career with us, you will be working by our four Operating Principles:
Performance: High standards, outstanding results,
Impact: Big challenges, bigger results
Commitment: All in, every time
One team: One mission, shared success
Joining our team and company isn't just about expertise; it's about embracing uncertainty with ambition. We're crafting world-changing solutions, fueled by a passion to redefine what's possible. We will look for you to help create and shape the future of logistics solutions through our products, our culture and our shared vision.
You Will Also Receive
Private healthcare via Bupa with 24/7 medical helpline
Life insurance
Income protection
Pension: 4+% employee with option to opt into salary exchange, 5% employer
Employee Assistance Programme - mental wellbeing, financial and legal advice/support
25 holidays per year
Full meals onsite in Wallingford
Fun team events on and offsite, snacks of all kinds in the office
AAP/EEO Statement
Dexory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. It prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training