Database Administrator (PostgreSQL & MySQL) - Saudi only

Have 5+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience in production.

Have experience with AWS Aurora, Amazon RDS, MySQL, and self-managed Linux databases.

Understand database performance tuning, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery.

Have experience managing multi-terabyte databases, upgrades, and migrations.

Can automate database operations using Bash or Python.

You have hands-on experience with backups, recovery, replication, and failover.

You can troubleshoot database incidents and minimize downtime.

You follow safe change-management practices and maintain rollback plans.

You can troubleshoot slow queries, indexing, locking, and resource utilization.

You understand PostgreSQL internals and multi-tenant database challenges.

You take ownership and remain calm under pressure.

You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with engineering teams.

You document your work and continuously improve database reliability.

Nice to Have (but not required)

Experience with multi-tenant database architectures, particularly schema-per-tenant environments with thousands of schemas.

Experience managing databases larger than several terabytes with high write volumes and demanding availability requirements.

Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL tooling such as Patroni, pgBackRest, or WAL-G.

Experience supporting cloud migrations or moving customer workloads to in-Kingdom hosting environments.

Familiarity with database observability, capacity planning, and per-customer database usage or cost allocation.

Experience working in SaaS, data-platform, fintech, banking, or telecommunications environments.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and automated database provisioning.

Relevant certifications, such as EDB PostgreSQL or AWS certifications.

What the hiring process will look like

Mawhub screening

Technical screen (45 min) — [DB Lead]

Technical deep-dive (60–90 min) with a practical scenario: diagnosing replication lag and WAL contention, planning a zero-downtime major upgrade — [DB Lead + SRE Team Lead]

Hiring manager interview — Mahmoud Moharam, Cloud Manager

Culture fit interview - HR Director