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Senior Database Administrator

Paysafe Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria

4 d ago
dba Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time Bulgaria
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About the role

The Senior Database Administrator will manage and optimize mission-critical Oracle and PostgreSQL databases across production and development environments. This role involves automating operational processes, ensuring high availability, and leading troubleshooting efforts for complex database incidents.

What they look for

Oracle Database Administration PostgreSQL Oracle GoldenGate AWS DMS Oracle Exadata Performance tuning Automation Troubleshooting Terraform Ansible Python Bash PL/SQL Git High availability Disaster recovery

Requirements

Candidates must have extensive experience administering Oracle databases in large-scale production environments and proficiency with AWS cloud infrastructure. Strong skills in performance tuning, automation, and incident resolution are required, along with the ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Benefits

25 days annual paid leave 4 days paid volunteering time Health insurance Sports card Team events Company discounts Soft skills training Business training Technical training

Full description

Paysafe is a global payments platform powering the experience economy, with a strong focus on the iGaming, video gaming, e-commerce, retail, travel and hospitality sectors. With 30 years of expertise in payment technology, Paysafe helps businesses and consumers lift every experience through seamless, secure payment solutions, including card payments, digital wallets such as Skrill, eCash solutions like PaysafeCard, and a suite of local payment methods. With approximately 2,900 employees across 12 countries and annualized transactional volume of $167 billion in 2025, Paysafe connects people and businesses worldwide through innovative digital payment experiences.

About the Role We're looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator to join Paysafe's Database Solutions Team in Sofia. You'll help manage and optimize mission-critical Oracle and PostgreSQL databases across Europe and North America, working with cloud infrastructure, automation, high-availability solutions, and large-scale production environments.

What You'll Do

  • Administer and support Oracle 19c and PostgreSQL databases across development, test, DR, and production environments.
  • Maintain high availability, disaster recovery, replication, security, and performance solutions.
  • Automate operational processes and improve database reliability and efficiency.
  • Lead troubleshooting efforts, root cause investigations, and major incident resolution.
  • Perform backup/recovery, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management activities.
  • Work closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams on business-critical database initiatives.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation supporting mission-critical systems.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement across monitoring, automation, and database operations.

What You'll Bring:

Required:

  • Extensive experience administering Oracle databases in large-scale production environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS DMS, and Oracle Exadata.
  • Experience supporting databases in AWS environments.
  • Strong SQL, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and automation skills.
  • Proven ability to resolve complex production incidents under pressure.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have:

  • PostgreSQL administration experience.
  • Experience in highly regulated environments.
  • Exposure to globally distributed, highly available database platforms.

Technologies You'll Work With: Oracle: Exadata, GoldenGate, RAC, Data Guard, OEM, Multitenant, ZDM AWS: RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, DMS, CloudWatch, IAM, SSM Automation & DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, Git, GitLab CI/CD Programming: PL/SQL, Python, Bash Other: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB Atlas, Splunk Success in This Role

You'll thrive if you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, automating repetitive tasks, improving platform reliability, and collaborating with teams across the business to keep critical systems running at their best. Join Paysafe and help power some of our most critical platforms while working with modern database technologies at scale.

We offer in return:• The opportunity to write the history of a leading and growing multinational company

  • Tailor-made training and ongoing development to help you enhance your skills in the field of online payments
  • Multiple career progression opportunities in a dynamic in-house business
  • Environment where product expertise, professional and personal commitment are rewarded
  • Competitive remuneration and social benefits package (25 days annual paid leave, 4 days paid volunteering time a year through our Paysafe Giving initiative, health insurance, sports card, team events, company discounts, variety of soft skills, business and technical training programs)
  • Fun and collaborative working atmosphere
  • Flexible working model - we encourage our employees to embrace our flexible working approach. You will be expected to work from home and spend an average of three days a week at our Sofia office as part of our hybrid work model

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join our team that is inspired by a unified vision and propelled by passion.

Send your CV in English. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Wondering how our interview process looks like now? Learn more here: https://bit.ly/paysafeinterviews

Equal Employment Opportunity Paysafe provides equal employment opportunities to all employees, and applicants for employment, and prohibits discrimination of any type with regard to ethnicity, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other protected characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of recruitment and employment. If you need any reasonable adjustments please let us know. We will be happy to help and look forward to hearing from you.

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