DBA
Description
We are looking for a skilled Mid-Level Database Developer to join our growing team in Bulgaria. In this role, you will build, maintain, and optimize database solutions that power our large-scale content aggregation platforms. You will work closely with data engineers, backend developers, and product teams to ensure our systems deliver fast, reliable, and high-quality content to users across multiple markets. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys solving sophisticated data challenges, improving performance at scale, and supplying to a data-driven product environment.
Responsibilities
- Invent, develop, and maintain relational database systems (MS-SQL) supporting high-volume content ingestion and retrieval.
- Build efficient data pipelines and transformations to support aggregation workflows.
- Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query efficiency across multiple environments.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to compose scalable database architectures for new features.
- Ensure data quality, data consistency, and integrity across ingestion, storage, and distribution systems.
- Develop and maintain database documentation, schemas, and standards.
- Supervise database health, capacity, and performance; implement proactive improvements.
- Participate in code reviews, invent sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support incident resolution and root-cause analysis for database-related issues.
- Chip in to automation initiatives in deployment, monitoring, and data validation.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience as a Database Developer, SQL Developer, or similar role.
- Strong proficiency in MS SQL.
- Hands-on experience in writing stored procedures, functions, triggers, and optimizing sophisticated queries.
- Experience working with large datasets and high-traffic environments.
- Understanding of data modelling, database schema build, and normalization.
- Familiarity with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Good level of English (written and spoken).
Benefits
- Familiarity with streaming technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Basic understanding of backend application stacks (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java).
