Database Platform Engineer (PostgreSQL)

About the role

Nexters is looking for an experienced Database Platform Engineer with deep PostgreSQL expertise to join its Platform Team. You will help design, build and maintain the core database infrastructure that powers multiple game product teams worldwide.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate scalable PostgreSQL environments across the company.
• Maintain reliability, performance, fault‑tolerance and cost efficiency of database services.
• Participate in architectural improvements, migrations and scaling initiatives for both managed and self‑hosted solutions.
• Automate provisioning and operations using Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools.
• Analyze and optimise infrastructure costs, evaluating trade‑offs between managed and self‑hosted options.
• Support incident response and complex production cases together with product and infrastructure teams.
• Collaborate with developers to reduce operational burden and improve data‑related best practices.

Required profile

• Proven experience as a Database Administrator, Database Reliability Engineer or Infrastructure Engineer working with production databases.
• Strong background in automation and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack or similar).
• Hands‑on experience running stateful services in Kubernetes environments.

Required skills

• PostgreSQL architecture, tuning, replication and maintenance.
• MySQL, AWS RDS, ElastiCache, MemoryDB.
• Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI.
• Bash and Python scripting.