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
Responsible for managing RDBMS and NoSQL solutions, optimizing performance, implementing replication and high availability, supporting development teams, and troubleshooting database issues.
Requirements
- 5+ 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 at least one of MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with other RDBMS or NoSQL solutions
- Strong knowledge of SQL, including DDL, DML, and DCL
- Experience with AWS or GCP cloud platforms
- Proficiency in Linux
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- English proficiency at B2 level or higher
- Experience with scripting, automation, and IaC tools is a plus
- Team management experience is a plus
- Familiarity with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or Zabbix is a plus
Responsibilities
- Manage RDBMS and NoSQL solutions
- Ensure database performance, scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery across bare-metal servers and virtual machines
- Implement and manage replication chains, partitioning, sharding, and backups
- Assist development teams with creating, optimizing, and troubleshooting RDBMS and NoSQL solutions
- Troubleshoot database issues
- Drive automation using Terraform, Puppet, and custom tooling for infrastructure and database lifecycle management
Benefits
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off
- Personalized career roadmap
