Senior Database Administrator (ClickHouse) at Tabby

Job description

Tabby creates financial freedom in the way people shop, earn and save by reshaping their relationship with money. Over 25 million users choose Tabby to stay in control of their spending and make the most out of their money. The company’s flagship offering allows shoppers to split their payments online and in-store with no interest or fees. Over 70,000 global brands and small businesses, including Amazon, Noon, IKEA, and SHEIN use Tabby to accelerate growth and gain loyal customers by offering easy and flexible payments online and in stores. Tabby generates over $18 billion in annual transaction volume for its partner brands and is the highest-rated, most-reviewed, largest, and fastest-growing FinTech in the GCC region. Tabby launched in 2019 and has since raised +$1 billion in equity and debt funding from global and regional investors, and is now valued at $6,5 billion. We’re looking for a Senior Database Administrator to join our Infrastructure team. You’ll work on high-impact projects in a high-growth environment, alongside a world-class remote engineering team spread across 20+ countries. Key Responsibilities: • Own the reliability and performance of our production ClickHouse clusters, whether self-hosted on Kubernetes or running on managed ClickHouse services. • Design a standard architecture and tooling that let us grow to dozens of multi-node clusters without the operational work growing at the same pace. • Manage the whole cluster lifecycle as code: provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades, and migrations. • Build monitoring and alerting that catch problems before users notice them. • Own backups and disaster recovery, and test restores regularly. • Keep clusters secure by default. • Plan capacity and keep infrastructure costs under control. • Be the go-to person on ClickHouse for developers, DevOps engineers, other DBAs, and engineering leadership, from schema design and data ingestion to query performance. • Handle routine database requests and automate as many of them as you can. • Step in during rare production emergencies, including outside business hours. Afterwards, lead the root-cause analysis on the database side and contribute to the postmortem. • Keep documentation and runbooks up to date, and share what you know with the team. What you’ll bring: • Deep, DBA-level knowledge of ClickHouse from running it in production. You should understand how it stores, merges, replicates, and queries data, and be able to explain why a cluster behaves the way it does. Strong SQL is part of this, including optimising complex analytical queries and reviewing schema design. • Ability to design architecture and automation that holds up across dozens of multi-node clusters. Experience running a large fleet of databases (dozens or hundreds of instances) is a strong advantage, and the engine does not have to be ClickHouse. • You have run and maintained stateful workloads on Kubernetes in production, well beyond the initial deployment. • Production use of a Kubernetes operator to run databases. Any engine counts, for example CloudNativePG, Zalando Postgres Operator, Altinity, or the official ClickHouse operator. • Experience with version upgrades, backup and restore, and migrating large datasets between clusters or regions with zero or minimal downtime. • Strong troubleshooting skills across the whole stack, from queries and schema design down to Kubernetes, Linux, storage, and networking. • A proactive approach to database health. You have built monitoring and alerting with any modern observability stack, and you act on early warning signs before they turn into incidents. • Database security in practice: encryption in transit and at rest, access control, and secrets management. • Infrastructure as code with any mainstream tool, plus at least one programming or scripting language for automation. • You have hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on any major provider, as opposed to only using a platform that another team runs. • Clear communication, written and spoken, with engineers and with leadership, whether the subject is architecture, performance, an incident, a risk, or a cost. You should be able to take a problem from investigation to production fix on your own. Nice to have: • Hands-on work on the source code of a Kubernetes operator for databases, as a developer or contributor. • Practical use of AI tools for database observability or for automating routine operational tasks. • A background in highly regulated environments. • Any Kubernetes or cloud certifications. What we offer: • Full-time B2B contract • Fully remote setup • Up to 20% tax allowance • 22 paid leave days annually • Stock options (ESOP) in a fast-scaling, pre-IPO company • Flexi benefits you can use for wellness, travel, or learning • Work alongside a high-performing, international engineering team in a global fintech unicorn Relocation support is available to our hubs in Armenia, Georgia, Serbia, Portugal, Poland and Spain, including flights, temporary accommodation, and legal setup (if needed).

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Tabby generates over $18 billion in annual transaction volume for its partner brands and is the highest-rated, most-reviewed, largest, and fastest-growing FinTech in the GCC region.
Tabby launched in 2019 and has since raised +$1 billion in equity and debt funding from global and regional investors, and is now valued at $6,5 billion.
Own the reliability and performance of our production ClickHouse clusters, whether self-hosted on Kubernetes or running on managed ClickHouse services.
Design a standard architecture and tooling that let us grow to dozens of multi-node clusters without the operational work growing at the same pace.
Manage the whole cluster lifecycle as code: provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades, and migrations.
Build monitoring and alerting that catch problems before users notice them.
Own backups and disaster recovery, and test restores regularly.
Keep clusters secure by default.
Plan capacity and keep infrastructure costs under control.
Be the go-to person on ClickHouse for developers, DevOps engineers, other DBAs, and engineering leadership, from schema design and data ingestion to query performance.
Handle routine database requests and automate as many of them as you can.
Step in during rare production emergencies, including outside business hours. Afterwards, lead the root-cause analysis on the database side and contribute to the postmortem.
Keep documentation and runbooks up to date, and share what you know with the team.
You have run and maintained stateful workloads on Kubernetes in production, well beyond the initial deployment.
Production use of a Kubernetes operator to run databases. Any engine counts, for example CloudNativePG, Zalando Postgres Operator, Altinity, or the official ClickHouse operator.
Experience with version upgrades, backup and restore, and migrating large datasets between clusters or regions with zero or minimal downtime.
Strong troubleshooting skills across the whole stack, from queries and schema design down to Kubernetes, Linux, storage, and networking.
A proactive approach to database health. You have built monitoring and alerting with any modern observability stack, and you act on early warning signs before they turn into incidents.
Database security in practice: encryption in transit and at rest, access control, and secrets management.
Infrastructure as code with any mainstream tool, plus at least one programming or scripting language for automation.

Nice-to-haves

Hands-on work on the source code of a Kubernetes operator for databases, as a developer or contributor.
Practical use of AI tools for database observability or for automating routine operational tasks.
A background in highly regulated environments.
Any Kubernetes or cloud certifications.

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