Senior Database Administrator

Description

SEON is the command center for fraud prevention and AML compliance, helping thousands of companies worldwide stop fraud, reduce risk and protect revenue. Powered by 900+ real-time, first-party data signals, SEON enriches customer profiles, flags suspicious behavior and streamlines compliance workflows - all from one place. SEON provides richer data, more flexible and transparent analysis, and faster time to value than any other provider on the market. We’ve helped companies reduce fraud by 95% and achieve 32x ROI, and we’re growing fast, thanks to our partnerships with some of the world’s most ambitious digital brands like Revolut, Wise, and Bilt.

We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator to help operate and scale SEON’s database platforms as our products and data continue to grow. In this role, you will work across multiple database technologies, including PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, ClickHouse, and YugabyteDB, supporting a variety of workloads and use cases.

Your focus will be to keep our database platforms reliable, scalable, observable, secure, and cost-efficient, while partnering closely with engineering teams on performance, architecture, and operational excellence.

This role offers flexibility and can be based in Budapest with a hybrid schedule.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and scale database platforms that handle terabytes of data
• Design scalable, reliable database architectures for different workloads and availability requirements
• Support and optimize databases including PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, ClickHouse, and YugabyteDB
• Troubleshoot database issues and query performance bottlenecks across large datasets
• Improve schema design, data structures, migrations, and change management processes
• Partner with development teams during design and delivery to ensure robust, scalable solutions
• Assess and communicate technical risks and tradeoffs in database and platform decisions
• Contribute to monitoring, observability, security, backup, and recovery practices across the database estate
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as part of the team
• Support and guide team members in using database resources effectively and efficiently
• WHAT YOU’LL BRING:
• Strong experience designing and administering large-scale databases handling terabytes of data, with particular strength in PostgreSQL; experience with other database technologies such as Oracle, Aurora, or DB2 is also valued
• Experience managing databases in at least one major cloud environment, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Strong knowledge of database design, configuration, maintenance, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
• Experience working with multiple database engines and understanding their operational tradeoffs
• Familiarity with database development processes, operational best practices, and reliability principles
• Basic knowledge of Terraform-managed databases or infrastructure as code
• Strong English communication skills
• AMAZING IF YOU ALSO HAVE:
• Experience with Apache Kafka
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Grafana or similar observability tooling
• Scripting or coding skills in Bash or Python