PostgreSQL Database Engineer

Company Description

We founded Storyblok in 2017 with the vision of becoming the go-to headless content platform. Our services are built by developers for developers, designers, and editors with a love for detail.

From the start, we have seen unbelievable growth in community and usage on a global scale, empowering people and companies in 131 countries to build sustainable and reliable projects faster.
As a company, we’ve grown 156% in the last year from 92 to 236 employees, across 45+ countries. We secured our **Series B funding of $47 million** last year, totalling **$58 million** so far.

With that said, there’s plenty of room for personal career advancements. It might come faster than you think

We are growing our Product Team in a company with a flat hierarchy. This means we promise you will have lots of autonomy and accessibility on exciting projects. Hopefully, this is your idea of career progression.
Many companies talk at length about their company, we will let the results speak for themselves.

Yes, we are fast-paced, and our team is passionate and driven to become the defacto standard in headless CMS. If you want to influence the future of Storyblok, and how businesses manage their content, join us as our Database Engineer.

**What is in it for you**

You will be joining a growing company where you can contribute to many “firsts”. Plus these benefits:

- Yearly remote work stipend (home internet costs, electricity). Home office equipment package right at the start (laptop, keyboard, monitor )
- Home office equipment upgrade (furniture, ear plugs) or membership to a local co-working space after your onboarding
- Sick leave benefit, parental leave and 25 days of annual leave plus your local national holidays
- Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and material
- VSOP (Virtual Stock Option Plan)
- The annual international team-building trip, quarterly and monthly online get-togethers
- As a fully remote company, with work-life balance at its core, you’ll enjoy flexible schedules
- An international team that loves to have fun at work and works hard together to accomplish shared goals

**Job Description**:
Storyblok is looking for a PostgreSQL specialist to support our database infrastructure. Knowledge of PostgreSQL best practices for performance and security purposes and experience with Amazon Aurora are a must. The position requires you to respond to service incidents as part of the daily operations.

**What you’ll do if you join us**
- Execute version updates with zero-downtime
- Analyse slow queries and improve them together with the backend team
- Scale the database in multiple regions

**Qualifications**:

- 3 years+ of experience in administering PostgreSQL databases
- Experience in zero-downtime version upgrades
- Experience with change, incidents and problem management processes
- Excellent knowledge of how to fix performance bottlenecks

Additional Information
- Storyblok has a commitment to diversity and inclusion. We strive to create a hiring environment in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued, irrespective of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, religion, citizenship or any other characteristic._
- We offer competitive salaries and additional benefits based on your performance, experience and qualification._
- According to the Austrian Law for Austrian employees: The employment is in accordance with the collective salary and wage agreement for employees of “Angestellte von Unternehmen im Bereich Dienstleistungen in der automatischen Datenverarbeitung und Informationstechnik” ST1 Einstiegsstufe. We offer a higher compensation depending on your experience and skills._