Senior Database Administrator
Xsolla is a global video game commerce company providing payment processing, merchant-of-record services, monetization, publishing, distribution, fraud prevention, tax management, and direct-to-consumer tools. Its primary clients are video game developers, publishers, payment providers, creators, and players.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Xsolla
Xsolla provides tools and services for launching, promoting, selling, and monetizing video games across mobile, PC, web, and other platforms. Its offerings include global payments, Pay Station, Web Shop, Buy Button, SDKs, APIs, authentication, subscriptions, virtual goods, game keys, game distribution, cloud gaming, anti-fraud, tax compliance, player support, analytics, LiveOps, creator campaigns, loyalty, rewards, and publishing tools. Xsolla serves game developers and publishers worldwide, as well as payment providers and gamers.
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About the Role
You will manage RDBMS and NoSQL solutions, ensuring database performance, scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery across environments deployed on bare-metal servers and virtual machines. You will implement and manage replication chains, partitioning and sharding, and backups. You'll assist development teams in creating, optimizing, and troubleshooting RDBMS and NoSQL solutions, and drive automation using tools like Terraform and Puppet for infrastructure and database lifecycle management.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Technology, or a related field of study
- Expert-level experience with at least one of MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with other RDBMS or NoSQL solutions
- Strong knowledge of SQL (DDL, DML, DCL)
- Experience with AWS or GCP cloud platforms
- Proficiency in Linux
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- English language proficiency at B2 level or higher
- Experience in scripting, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Bash/Python) is a plus
- Team management experience is a plus
- Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or Zabbix is a plus
Responsibilities
- Manage RDBMS and NoSQL solutions
- Ensure database performance, scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery across environments deployed on bare-metal servers and virtual machines
- Implement and manage replication chains, partitioning / sharding, backups
- Assist development teams in creating, optimizing, and problem solving with RDBMS and NoSQL solutions
- Troubleshoot database issues
- Drive automation using Terraform, Puppet, and custom tooling for infrastructure and database lifecycle management
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision plans
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off
- Personalized career roadmap