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Senior Database Engineer

Pollard Banknote Limited -
Winnipeg, MB

Job details

Full-time
8 days ago

Qualifications

CI/CD
Performance tuning
Computer science
Computer Science
Ansible
DevOps
English
SQL
AWS
Bachelor's
PostgreSQL
Terraform
Computer networking
RDS
Communication skills
Debugging
High availability
Identity & access management

Full job description

We’re looking for a Senior Database Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team within our Winnipeg Office OR Remote.

You'll take ownership of the performance, reliability, and scalability of our PostgreSQL estate on AWS. You’ll be a part of an empowered engineering function, partnering closely with DevOps, Release Engineering, and customer-facing product development teams to keep our platform fast, resilient, and ready for scale. This is a hands-on, high-impact role. You’ll dive deep into PostgreSQL internals, solve complex performance issues in production, build observability into the heart of our data platform, and drive best practices across the organization. You’ll enable teams to ship safely, sustainably, and with confidence.

Who We Are

At Pollard Banknote Limited, we've been a leader in instant lottery ticket manufacturing and services for over a century, delivering innovation and quality. Our diverse, talented team drives creativity and collaboration. Alongside our traditional products, we lead in digital lottery solutions, enhancing player engagement with cutting-edge technology. Join us in impacting millions of lives with exciting lottery experiences and help shape the future of gaming!

What We Offer

Competitive compensation
Profit sharing program – every role plays a part in our success!
Company pension
Health & Extended Benefits
Opportunities for professional development
Tuition reimbursement
On-Site Cafeteria & Outdoor Patio
On Site Gym
A variety of committee driven employee engagement activities
Employee & Family Assistance Program
Free Parking
Hybrid Work Environment

What You’ll Do:

Collaborate with teams across Serbia, Iceland and Canada on data modelling, schema evolution, and SQL best practices to ensure efficient, stable application–database interaction.
Own PostgreSQL health, performance, availability, and evolution across AWS, including capacity planning, upgrades, replication, partitioning, high availability, and performance-aware schema design.
Diagnose and resolve complex performance and availability issues across storage, replication, query execution, and connection management layers.
Drive observability and reliability by defining meaningful database metrics, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks, and by leading RCAs to improve resilience.
Automate database operations including provisioning, backups, schema migrations, and CI/CD integration, reducing manual release effort and enforcing safe migration practices.
Support releases and incident response by reviewing migration scripts, ensuring operational readiness, and participating in the on-call rotation.
Enable and mentor engineers on SQL optimisation, indexing, schema evolution, and database best practices.

Who You Are:

A hands-on PostgreSQL expert who enjoys solving hard performance problems, building reliable and observable systems, and coaching teams to use the database effectively.
Comfortable working in a team setting where collaboration, feedback, and shared ownership are core values
Curious and pragmatic - you’re eager to explore new technologies but grounded in delivering value
Practised with modern engineering fundamentals – version control, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and cloud-native patterns.

What You’ll Bring:

B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent
5+ years of experience in Enterprise PosgreSQL high-scale production environment
Deep PostgreSQL expertise (WAL, MVCC, vacuum/autovacuum, buffer management, execution plans, indexing strategy, OR/Ms)
Strong operational and debugging skills in high-throughput systems, including slow-query tuning and connection pooling (PgBouncer)
AWS and DevOps experience with Aurora/RDS, networking, IAM, backups/DR, IaC (Terraform/Ansible), and CI/CD
Reliability and observability mindset with experience designing SLOs, alerts, dashboards, and runbooks. Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana for system visibility and performance tuning
Strong communication and mentoring skills, working effectively across platform, DevOps, and product teams
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

If you’re looking to join a company where your technical skills and ideas can make a meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and let’s shape the future of digital lottery experiences together.

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