Database Team Lead

6 days ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Deriv Full time

Job Information

Job Opening ID
- ZR_1595_JOB

Industry
- Back-end Development

City
- Dubai

Country
- United Arab Emirates

As a Database team lead at Deriv, you will coordinate the activities of our highly talented Database team to plan, install, and maintain our database systems. You will use your extensive experience to ensure that our Postgres databases are scalable, hackproof, properly backed-up, and redundant in case of failure. In collaboration with your team, you will guarantee the security, integrity, and seamless flow of information for our high-traffic online trading platform.

**Your challenges**
- The role is hands-on. Technically challenging and fast paced
- The role requires close collaboration with the VP and the Principal Engineer for Storage to align with strategic goals
- You will plan and prioritize work to be progressed by the team
- You will nurture and grow a team with wide ranging abilities - from junior to expert level
- You will continually monitor and review the storage landscape, and look for ways to innovate and refine to meet ever increasing volume, performance, security and availability challenges
- The role requires multi-site collaboration over different time zone

**Our team**
- The Database Team Lead at Deriv is responsible for managing a high performing team of Database Administrators. The Storage (DBA) team covers all research & development projects and production support activities relating to in-memory caches, relational databases and long term storage.

As Deriv’s operations and transaction volumes grow in size, developing products and services requires ongoing innovation to provide enhanced scalability, performance, security, and disaster recovery. Join us to realise these ambitions with your knowledge and engineering experience and expertise.

**Requirements**:

- 8+ years of related, recent, experience
- 3-5 years of experience leading a team
- Strong recent hands on software development and code review skills with PostgreSQL principally
- Strong hands on system administration using Linux on AWS/GCP
- Experience working with large, distributed, high-performance, high availability databases with 24/7 uptime
- Excellent spoken and written English communication skills
- A university degree in software engineering, computer science, or a related field
- Occasional travel between office locations across the Globe
- A desire to continue to learn and keep up to date with the Postgres & Linux communities and best practices

**What’s Good To Have**
- Work experience in the fintech and/or trading industries advantageous
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform and database as a service advantageous
- Experience with database CI/CD tools and implementation advantageous
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL databases and Redis advantageous

**Benefits**:

- Market-based salary
- Annual performance bonus
- Medical insurance
- Housing and transportation allowance
- Casual dress code
- Work permit
- A chance to work with top talent from across the globe (70+ nationalities)
- Ample team-building and bonding activities
- Great overseas travel opportunities



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