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Airwallex company · OPEN ROLE

Airwallex

Senior Database Administrator (DBA), Infra

KR - Seoul (On-site) · Engineering · AI

Company
Own the licensed payment rails, then connect accounts, software and AI.
Role
Own reliability, security, performance and compliance for Korean production databases.

What you will do

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Responsibilities

  • Operate PostgreSQL and Redis/Redis Cluster availability, replication, failover, backup and disaster recovery.
  • Meet Korean residency and security requirements for backups, replicas and snapshots.
  • Automate provisioning, configuration, access and operations with scripts, software and IaC.
  • Improve monitoring, alerts, schema, indexes, queries, performance and incident diagnosis.
  • Strengthen privileged access, approvals, audit evidence and documentation; improve on-call readiness with local/global teams.

What you need

  • 4+ years administering production relational databases and live transactional workloads.
  • Strong PostgreSQL HA, replication and clustering; Patroni, pgpool-II, PgBouncer or similar; Redis/Redis Cluster administration.
  • Public-cloud database operations; Google Cloud preferred.
  • Linux, shell and at least one programming language; analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Business English, professional Korean, ownership and documentation.
  • Based in Seoul; primarily Google Cloud with a secondary AWS footprint.

Good to have

  • Distributed databases, Kafka, Elasticsearch or ClickHouse; Terraform/Ansible or similar IaC.
  • Database containers/Kubernetes and building or owning a database environment from scratch.
  • Korean banking, payments or licensed fintech; residency, network separation, access and audit requirements.
  • Regulatory examinations and external audits.
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