About the Company
Nexters is an international game development company that strives to introduce the joy of core gaming experiences to casual players. In 2021 we went public and listed on the NASDAQ (GDEV). Nexters is part of the GDEV holding, which also includes Cubic Games, Royal Ark, Game Gears and Light Hour Games studios.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable database infrastructure for multiple game product teams.
- Develop and operate PostgreSQL environments, ensuring stability, performance, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency.
- Participate in architectural improvements and migrations involving both managed and self-hosted database solutions.
- Work with scaling challenges and high-load production environments.
- Analyze and optimize infrastructure costs, including evaluating trade-offs between managed and self-hosted solutions.
- Automate database operations and environment provisioning using Infrastructure as Code and scripting tools.
- Support and improve existing solutions involving PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS RDS, ElastiCache, and MemoryDB.
- Handle incidents and complex production cases together with product and infrastructure teams.
- Collaborate closely with development teams to understand their needs and reduce the operational burden of working with data infrastructure.
- Contribute to reliability, security, and best practices across the company's database landscape.
Requirements
- Practical experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack, or similar solutions.
- Expertise in PostgreSQL, including architecture, tuning, replication, maintenance, and operations.
- Experience as a Database Administrator, Database Reliability Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer working with production database environments.
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments and managed database solutions.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with distributed product teams.
Benefits & Perks
- Healthcare: Medical care program (including dental service) or medical care compensation.
- Work-life balance: Fair amount of paid vacation days and sick leave.
- Sports: Various sports activities like yoga, football, and volleyball.
- Relocation support: A relocation package if you join in one of our official locations.
- Skills improvement: Online English courses and participation in game jams, hackathons, and relevant conferences.
