Remote Clickhouse DBA with verification

Tabby · South Africa · Remote

About the job

Tabby creates financial freedom in the way people shop, earn and save by reshaping their relationship with money. Over 5,000,000 active users choose Tabby to stay in control of their spending and make the most out of their money.

Over 30,000 global brands and small businesses, including H&M, Adidas, IKEA, SHEIN, noon, and Bloomingdale’s, use Tabby’s technology to accelerate growth and gain loyal customers by offering flexible payments online and in stores. Tabby is active in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Kuwait and backed by leading investors, including Sequoia Capital India, STV, PayPal Ventures, Mubadala Investment Capital, Arbor Ventures and others.


Tabby launched operations in 2020 and has raised +$1 billion in equity and debt funding from global and regional investors.


We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to help us with an outstanding runtime and development platform for Tabby’s services.

You’ll be working in a dynamic, rapidly evolving environment.


Our tech stack:

Linux, kubernetes, GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud PostgreSQL, Spanner), Datadog, Gitlab, Cloudflare, Elasticsearch, Terragrunt, Istio, Vault, ArgoCD, Helm, Go


Key Responsibilities
  • Design, construct, install, and maintain large relational databases.
  • Maintain the integrity and security of the database, including backups and recovery procedures.
  • Implement and manage disaster recovery and failover systems.
  • Monitor database performance, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required.
  • Optimize queries for performance.
  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize database usage.
  • Setup and maintain database replication, clustering, mirroring, and other high availability strategies.
  • Use and understand tools like pgbouncer and modern monitoring systems.
  • Stay updated with the latest database technologies and best practices.


Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
  • Experience with Clickhouse/Qdrant.
  • Proficiency in PostgreSQL setup, replication, upgrade, monitoring and performance tuning.
  • Can read and write complex and very complex queries.
  • Experience with backup and recovery procedures, as well as PITR.
  • Strong knowledge of database design, documentation, and coding.
  • Familiarity with database management tools and performance tuning techniques.
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
  • Familiarity with programming/scripting languages like bash, Python, go, etc.
  • Experience with DbaaS on cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS (would be a plus).


Desired Skills:
  • Certification in database management or equivalent training (would be a plus).
  • Experience in migrating large databases between cloud platforms.
  • Knowledge of the latest trends in database administration.
  • Familiarity with modern DevOps practices such as Kubernetes, terraform, helm.
  • Experience in real-time data streaming technologies such as Debezium/Flink.


What we offer

Relocation


We offer remote work from anywhere in the world and are happy to work out an individual relocation plan for you.


Our employees have the opportunity to choose a country for registration: at the moment those are Armenia/Georgia/Serbia/Portugal/Spain.


We will help you open a legal entity and a bank account. We work according to service agreements (B2B contracts). In Armenia and Georgia, the taxes are compensated by Tabby. In other countries we provide partial compensation of taxes.


For our employees we cover the following:
  • Flight to one of the mentioned countries.
  • Accommodation during the paperwork completion period.
  • Opening a bank account and getting a residence permit in one of the mentioned countries.
  • Family relocation (dependants).

New employees can also choose an alternative method of relocation to another country of their choice. In this case, Tabby will reimburse up to $5,000 of verified costs upon opening a legal entity and a bank account.