DBA Intern
Core
Database Intern responsible for operational health, performance tuning, and reliability of PostgreSQL and distributed databases in a regulated fintech environment.
Role type
Junior Database Engineer (Intern)
Builds
Transactional and analytical databases for payment flows, risk pipelines, and marketplace services
Domain
Fintech / Financial Services
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
SQL (joins, aggregation, window functions), PostgreSQL fundamentals, Linux command line, Git, Python/Go/Bash scripting, TCP/IP networking
Preferred skills
ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Redis, Kafka, CDC patterns, PgBouncer, CloudSQL/Aurora, Kubernetes operators, Terraform, observability stacks (Datadog/Prometheus)
Responsibilities
Investigate slow queries and optimize execution plans, review DDL/DML change requests, maintain backup and recovery procedures, support live database migrations, triage capacity and resource issues, build observability dashboards, maintain operational runbooks
Seniority
Intern, full-time engagement