Senior Database Specialist, Energy Trading Full-time,Berlin

Your role will be to work closely with our Backend, Data Science as well as Trading & Analysis teams in order to make our databases function in the most efficient manner possible. Controlling access to our data, improving the structure of the databases, looking for anomalies/inconsistencies, guiding team members to work with the database correctly and constantly striving to eke out the last bit of performance will be your bread and butter. As part of our Database team, you will be the critical central core around which the company will grow.

What you’ll be doing

Help make database architecture and design decisions
Develop PL/pgSQL scripts to speed up and automate common tasks
Implement tracking of all database changes as code
Set up roles, permissions and processes for accessing and working with the data
Automate provisioning of the databases in our AWS cloud
Review SQL queries written by other team members and give feedback
Monitor and improve database performance

What you need to bring

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field. Master’s degree or higher is preferred
Extensive experience working with both relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and non-relational databases (Redis preferred) Knowledge of timeseries databases is a plus
Detailed understanding of database version control systems (Liquibase preferred)
Hands-on experience working with multivariate data sets.
A good understanding of cloud technologies, particularly those dealing with cloud storage solutions
Comfortable interfacing with monitoring tools like Grafana
Applied experience with version control systems such as git
Ability and willingness to work independently