Staff Database Administrator (DBA) at Doctolib
We are looking for a Staff Database Administrator (DBA) to join the DODO team in our Tech Department. As a Database Administrator, your mission will be to work on improving and protecting the health of our datastores, which is essential for providing reliable and efficient healthcare services to patients and practitioners. You will be working in a feature team responsible for empowering the whole tech teams to use our datastores in the most efficient way. Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams. Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:- Empower feature teams on database best practices.
- Help break down our main PostgreSQL database (30TB) into smaller, more scalable databases.
- Keep an eye on query performance and data modeling, and offer recommendations to feature teams on how to optimize it.
- Set up monitoring and alerting to catch performance issues.
- Perform maintenance tasks on our managed databases to enhance stability and improve performance.
About our tech environment
- Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to the country and healthcare specialty requirements. To address these challenges, we are modularizing our platform run in a distributed architecture through reusable components.
- Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.
- We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here and learn about our first AI hackathon here!
Who you are
Before you read on — if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.- You have 10+ years of experience as a Database Administrator or Engineer with a focus on reliability and scalability.
- You have strong problem-solving skills, especially in identifying and rectifying database performance bottlenecks.
- You have excellent communication skills, enabling efficient transmission of knowledge.
- You have experience in mentoring junior engineers on database performance challenges (queries optimization and best practices).
- You are eager to leverage your experience and skills to make your team and the whole Tech team grow.
- You speak English.
- Have been involved in Architecture choices for high traffic web applications, particularly scalability challenges on large databases.
- Have experience with cloud-based environments and databases such as AWS Aurora PostgreSQL.
- Have experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
- Have experience with Change Data Capture ecosystems & technologies such as Kafka and Debezium.
What we offer
- Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
- Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave
- Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
- For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
- Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
- Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class
- Up to 14 days of RTT
- A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class
- Lunch voucher with Swile card
The interview process
- Phone screen with a Tech Recruiter
- DBA technical interview
- Behavioral interview
- Half day immersion
- At least one reference check