Database Administrator (Bridge) Hungary, Budapest, Remote

About the Bridge Team

We are a global team of Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Program Managers across Hungary, the US, and many other countries. We help our customers create work cultures people love.

About the Product

GetBridge was founded to define, develop, and deploy world-class, easy-to-use software, and that’s what we do and will keep on doing. We make better, more usable tools for teaching, learning, and career management, stuff people will actually use. Are you interested? 

Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdelswTXQh8

So here are our questions for you:

Do you have a “Challenge Accepted” attitude? 

You belong with us if you:

• Are interested in taking the lead of managing our databases in a complex SaaS cloud environment, collaborating with engineering teams to ensure high availability and performance
• You can work in an empowered environment where we support you to play an important role in solving interesting problems
• You’re keen to be part of, work with and learn from a highly experienced US based infrastructure engineering team using lean product development. Make decisions, iterate, and learn, improving the infrastructure and with that the product
• You love to learn new things and improve yourself is encoded in your DNA

Knowledge is power. Are you armoured? You will use these skills!

• You have 3+ years experience in database administration or in a similar role
• Experienced in database backup, disaster recovery planning, advanced performance optimization and data security.
• Knowledge of database management tools
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to provide quick solutions to issues.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills to work in a cross team environment.
• Knowledge/Experience working with AWS RDS (Postgres and MySQL) and Aurora, also AWS NoSQL Databases
• Experience with modern Data Platforms, Data Lake and ETL.
• Experience with or understanding of graph and vector databases is a plus.
• Knowledge of IT security best practices
• Ability to use a scripting language (like Python) with AWS CLI or Lambda to automate database administration tasks within AWS
• Proficiency with database monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to manage and provision database resources.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Setting up and maintaining the DB environment, including new DB deployments, existing DB upgrades and routine maintenance in a low-downtime methodology
• Rightsizing and managing the DB infrastructure for cost optimization
• Monitoring performance, suggesting improvements, evaluating changes to data consumers
• Collaborate with engineering teams on database schema design and architectural decisions for new features and services
• Act as a subject matter expert and provide guidance to software engineers on best practices for database interaction and performance
• Design and implement automation scripts and tools to streamline routine DBA tasks, deployments, and maintenance
• Recommend database management best practices
• Author and execute disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure database availability during system outages or dysfunction
• Analyze internal database setup (schema/table/etc) and suggest improvements, and implement suggested changes
• Planning for future growth, high availability, and performance

Do you like things to be in balance?

Our offer focuses on your:

• Healthy work-life balance: We have an awesome office at Allee Corner Centre where you are welcome and we also maintain team office days from a team health perspective, but there is no mandate to get to work in a hybrid fashion. Our employees enjoy the freedom to manage their working hours
• Personal growth: We want to bring out the best in you through several things, learning days, quarterly hack weeks, mentorship, career development plan, and training opportunities from the first day
• Financial stability: We offer you a competitive salary package (1.4 - 1.8M HUF gross / month depending on your seniority), a bonus (based on the performance of the company), a comprehensive healthcare package provided by Medicover, a SZÉP card with extra sport bucket, and other fringe benefits

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.