Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer (m/f/d)

Ratepay • Berlin

Full-time

Berlin

from today

Your Mission

At Ratepay, we are dedicated to revolutionizing the world of digital payments. Established in 2009, we have grown to become Europe's leading white-label Buy Now Pay Later payment provider, processing over 2.5 million transactions per month. Our diverse team of 200+ professionals collaborates to create customized, state-of-the-art payment solutions for major online retailers and marketplaces.

Ratepay is seeking an experienced Data Infrastructure Engineer with a strong background in cloud-based database systems, including PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, ElastiCache, and automation with Terraform and Python. In this role, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data infrastructure as platform usage grows, while standardizing backups, supporting schema changes, optimizing performance, maintaining Terraform modules, maintain and migrating Airflow, as well as expanding expertise in Microsoft SQL Server.  

Your Key Responsibilities:

Operate, maintain, and enhance PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, and ElastiCache in AWS.
Support automation of database provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Python.
Create, manage and maintain the terraform modules for data infrastructure related component.
Manage and maintain Apache Airflow.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve database performance.
Own backup and recovery strategies and manage production upgrades.
Collaborate with product teams on schema design, queries, and data migrations.
Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
Document operational procedures and train internal stakeholders.
Learn and support Microsoft SQL Server to widen internal capability.

Your Profile

Must-have skills:

PostgreSQL (Deep technical ownership and performance tuning of critical database workloads)
DocumentDB, ElastiCache (Operate, maintain, and enhance in AWS)
AWS (Operate cloud-native databases with security, HA, and observability)
Terraform (Automate infrastructure deployment and ensure reproducibility)
Python (Scripting for automation, monitoring, and dev tooling)
Experience working with Apache Airflow

Nice-to-have skills:

Microsoft SQL Server (Grow support capabilities for Windows-based workloads)
CI/CD for DB changes (Improve deployment velocity and safety)
Snowflake experience
Monitoring (e.g. CloudWatch,Datadog for proactive performance tuning and incident alerting)
On-call experience (Operate in a 24/7 support model with reliability focus)

Due to our hybrid work model, we are looking for candidates based in or near Berlin. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to support visa or relocation processes.

Equal Opportunities & Diversity

We value our diversity and welcome everyone to our team. Regardless of ethnic and social background, religious beliefs, worldview, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental limitations, age, marital status, educational background and nationality. With over 200 employees and 40 different nationalities, we take our values seriously. These include ownership, growth, integrity, collaboration, customer centricity and inclusion.

The sweet spot! Let’s talk perks.

We're more than just a workplace – we're a vibrant community of innovators, collaborators, and visionaries who love what we do and reward those who work with us. Here, your career isn't just a job. It's an opportunity to thrive, learn, and make a difference. Take a look at these great personalised benefits of working at Ratepay On a monthly basis, you can choose between mobility, fitness, food, training and much more.

Flexible working hours

Work remotely (EU for up to 4 weeks a year)

28 vacation days per annum

Financial security including Pension plan

Medical extras (Eye examination etc.)

Monthly lunches as well as Beets & Roots discounts

Learning and development (Access to various self-development platforms such as language learning and skills enhancement.

Community connect. We take certain days off to give back to the community as a unit. (Animal shelters, homeless aids, and various charities)

Health & wellbeing

Gym memberships and fitness

Ratepaw community: Our office has a floor which is dog-friendly. So, bring your pawsome pet to work when needed.

Our Recruitment Process

Step 1: Intro Call with a Senior Talent Partner

The first call with our recruiter is meant to be an introduction to ratepay, our culture and recruitment process.

We want to get to know you better, understand who you are beyond your CV and find out what excites you.

Step 2: Meet your future Manager

This step is designed to get to know your future manager and the role better.

During this conversation we will dive deeper into your experience and share more about the team you would work with and share expectations from both sides.

Step 3: Team interview & skill assessment

This step looks slightly different in different business areas but is to assess technical and culture add.

It usually consists of a role-specific case study or technical assessment as well as assessing values alignment with some senior members of the team you would be joining.

Step 4: Coffee chat (optional)

This step doesn't occur in every process, it depends on the role.

The coffee chat would generally take place with either a senior stakeholder from the business area you are joining such as a C-level leader or Head of department, or in some cases with a Senior HRBP.

Ready to shape the future of digital payments? Join our team

Apply now!

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