The Role
Designs, operates, and continuously improves scalable database and data infrastructure. Responsibilities include PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch administration; backups, recovery, replication, capacity planning, performance tuning, observability, incident management, and high-availability operations. The role also provides technical guidance, leads operational excellence, and collaborates with product and cross-functional teams to support reliable systems serving millions of users.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Midas, we are working on real-life engineering challenges to transform the world of finance.
We’ve transformed investing in Turkey by delivering a seamless experience for everyday investors.
Today, 4 million users invest with Midas. Backed by an $80M Series B, the largest fintech investment ever in Turkey, we are scaling faster than ever.
What You'll Do:
- Design, architect, and operate scalable, robust systems across critical data infrastructure to support high-throughput operations.
- Own the day-to-day administration, tuning, and continuous improvement of our datastores — including backups, recovery, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
- Work with product and cross-functional teams to deliver maximum customer value and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Own end-to-end delivery, including performance monitoring, observability, and proactive incident management in production environments.
- Provide technical guidance and foster best practices within the Datastore, Messaging, and Reliability domain through knowledge sharing and peer reviews.
- Lead the operational excellence, scaling, and continuous improvement of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and strong reliability practices.
What You'll Bring:
- Experience solving large-scale problems for millions of users through scalable and reliable systems.
- Extensive hands-on experience in database administration, with deep expertise in PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
- Strong background in production reliability, including high availability, disaster recovery, replication, and performance tuning at scale.
- Experience working within large and complex technical ecosystems, with strong database management and data streaming expertise.
- Ability to navigate technical and organizational dependencies, balancing trade-offs with partner teams and aligning technical strategy with business priorities.
- Solid understanding of monitoring, observability, and incident management practices in production environments.
- Nice to have: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, particularly using StatefulSets for stateful workloads.
- Nice to have: Working knowledge of SQL Server, TimescaleDB, and Altibase.
Skills Required
- Experience solving large-scale problems for millions of users through scalable and reliable systems
- Extensive hands-on database administration experience
- Deep expertise in PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch
- Experience with production reliability, including high availability, disaster recovery, replication, and performance tuning at scale
- Experience working within large and complex technical ecosystems
- Strong database management and data streaming expertise
- Ability to navigate technical and organizational dependencies and align technical strategy with business priorities
- Understanding of monitoring, observability, and incident management practices in production environments
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience, particularly StatefulSets for stateful workloads
- Working knowledge of SQL Server, TimescaleDB, and Altibase
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The Company
What We Do
Midas is a Turkish financial technology company and the country's first fully digital stock brokerage application. It provides individual investors with seamless access to major U.S. stock markets, including NASDAQ and NYSE, as well as Borsa Istanbul. The SEC-licensed platform enables users to invest in stocks, options, warrants, and investment funds, focusing on diversifying portfolios and making financial markets more accessible.
