# Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

**Company**: Yuno
**Location**: Mexico
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Remote
**Salary**: USD 3,000-4,500 per-month-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Yuno, we are building the payment infrastructure that helps companies grow across Latin America and beyond.

We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator to join our Engineering team and take ownership of the reliability, performance, and scalability of our database systems.

This is a senior, remote role for someone who thrives on solving complex data infrastructure challenges and wants to make a direct impact on a fast-growing payments platform.

## Responsibilities

- Own the performance, availability, and scalability of our production database systems (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)

- Design, implement, and maintain backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies

- Lead database deployments, migrations, and schema changes with minimal downtime

- Provide after-hours and on-call support for critical deployments, sharing coverage with the rest of the team

- Monitor database health and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks

- Partner with Engineering to design scalable data architectures for new features

- Establish and enforce best practices for security, access control, and data governance

- Document database processes and mentor other engineers on database best practices

## Requirements

- 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator or similar senior data infrastructure role

- Strong hands-on expertise with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB in production environments

- Solid experience with backup and disaster recovery strategies, replication, and high-availability setups

- Experience supporting production deployments, including after-hours or on-call rotations

- Comfortable working independently in a remote, distributed team spanning multiple timezones

- Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills under pressure

- Fluent in both English and Spanish, written and spoken

- Based in Mexico, Europe, or a similar timezone that complements a Bogota-based team

- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering

## Skills

### Required
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- backup and disaster recovery strategies
- replication
- high-availability setups
- troubleshooting
- performance-tuning

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