Database Specialist With Postgres & PGBouncer | 6+Months Contract | Remote

Title: Database Performance Specialist

Location: Remote

Duration: 6+Months Contract

Salary: Open (INR).

Requirements

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Database Performance Specialist with strong expertise in PostgreSQL and PgBouncer to support our team on a 4–6 month remote contract engagement. You will be responsible for ensuring optimal database performance, improving efficiency, and supporting mission-critical environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform in-depth PostgreSQL performance tuning, including query optimization, indexing strategy, and resource tuning.
• Configure, optimize, and maintain PgBouncer connection pooling in production.
• Monitor and analyze database metrics to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Troubleshoot slow queries, locking/blocking, replication lag, and transaction contention.
• Implement or refine database architecture for scaling, HA, replication, and failover.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve schema design and application database interactions.
• Create automation for performance monitoring, analysis, and recurring maintenance tasks.
• Document best practices, configurations, and performance recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience managing and optimizing PostgreSQL in production environments.
• Proven experience with PgBouncer configuration, tuning modes, sizing, and troubleshooting.
• Expert-level SQL performance tuning and understanding of PostgreSQL internals (planner, optimizer, WAL, MVCC).
• Experience with monitoring tools such as pg_stat_statements, pgBadger, Prometheus/Grafana, or APM tools.
• Strong understanding of replication, HA strategies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience working in Linux-based server environments.
• Ability to work independently and deliver results quickly in a contract setting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-hosted PostgreSQL (AWS RDS/Aurora, GCP Cloud SQL, etc.).
• Knowledge of connection pool architectures in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) or scripting languages (Python, Bash).
• Experience supporting high-traffic, low-latency systems.

Benefits

If Interested please send your updated resume to:[email protected]and include your rate/Salary requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us.

We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest.