Senior Database Administrator
Xsolla is a global video game commerce company providing tools and services to launch, monetize, and scale games. Its offerings include payments, web shops, publishing, distribution, LiveOps, anti-fraud, subscriptions, SDKs, and creator solutions for developers, publishers, payment providers, creators, and other gaming businesses.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Xsolla (USA), Inc.
Xsolla operates as a global merchant of record and video game commerce platform serving developers, publishers, resellers, payment providers, creators, and retailers. It provides payment processing across more than 200 countries and regions, 1,000+ payment methods, and 130+ currencies, alongside tax management, compliance, fraud prevention, refunds, dispute management, and end-user support. Its product portfolio includes Web Shop, Publishing Suite, Payments, Xsolla Pay, Mobile Buy Button, SDKs, Subscriptions, game distribution, Partner Network, Offerwall, LiveOps, Anti-Fraud, Login, Site Builder, cloud gaming, and related gaming commerce tools.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will manage relational and NoSQL databases, improve performance and scalability, implement replication and partitioning, maintain backups and disaster recovery, troubleshoot database issues, support development teams, and automate infrastructure and database lifecycle operations.
Requirements
- 5 or more years of experience as a Database Administrator.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science Technology or a related field.
- Expert-level experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with other RDBMS or NoSQL solutions.
- Strong SQL knowledge including DDL DML and DCL.
- Experience with AWS or GCP.
- Proficiency in Linux.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- English proficiency at B2 level or higher.
- Scripting automation and Infrastructure-as-Code experience is preferred.
- Team management experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with Datadog Prometheus Grafana or Zabbix is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Manage RDBMS and NoSQL solutions.
- Ensure database performance scalability high availability and disaster recovery.
- Operate databases across bare-metal servers and virtual machines.
- Implement replication chains partitioning sharding and backups.
- Assist development teams with database creation optimization and troubleshooting.
- Drive automation with Terraform Puppet and custom tooling.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical insurance
- 100% company-paid dental insurance
- 100% company-paid vision insurance
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off
