Freelance PostgreSQL EngineerTrading | Amsterdam | 6+ months | Rate: €100/hourWant to be the person a trading firm's databases depend on? My client, an independent options market maker in Amsterdam, runs on PostgreSQL. Prices, positions, risk and PnL all live there, so it has to be fast, available and recoverable.The estate grew with the business and has never had a dedicated specialist. That's where you come in. You bring every PostgreSQL database up to one solid standard, then turn that standard into a managed service the rest of the firm builds on. This isn't maintenance work. You build a core part of the data platform, report directly to the Head of Data, and see the first results within three months.What you'll ownBackup and recovery for all production PostgreSQL, with timed restore drills and evidence that holds up under MiFID II and DORA.Performance, replication, failover and connection pooling, with alerting that reaches you before it reaches a trader.Access control, provisioning and recovery as code in Git, repeatable without you in the room.Designing the managed PostgreSQL service, including a say in the move to Google Cloud.What you bring4+ years running PostgreSQL in production, with deep knowledge of locking, replication, WAL and recovery.Backup and recovery you've designed, drilled and met a recovery-time objective with.Query tuning under real load, plus infrastructure as code and pipelines as daily tools.The drive to set your own plan as the only database specialist, and the skill to explain trade-offs to developers, quants and traders.Bonus points for: TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, GCP, Redis or MongoDB, or a background in trading or other low-latency environments.Expect a flat, informal team of around 16 nationalities, short lines and real ownership from day one.Available on short notice and ready to make this yours? Apply directly via LinkedIn's Easy Apply button, or email me at n.verhage@doghouse.nl

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Senior Database Specialist