DB & Data Platform Engineer

Lokacija: Sarajevo

Opis:

Work model: Hybrid (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)
Employment: Full-time, permanent employment contract (not open to B2B or contractor arrangements)
Seniority: Principal / Senior

A new healthcare tech company is coming to Sarajevo! 🚀

Take ownership of the data layer of a production healthcare SaaS platform as a Senior DB & Data Platform Engineer. You will work across SQL and NoSQL databases, cloud storage, data pipelines, migrations, backups, and data security, making sure the data is always safe, fast, and reliable.

In this product, data matters most, and losing it is not an option. This is a senior hands-on role where you become the go-to expert for everything data. It’s a broad role. Nobody expects you to know everything on day one, but you should be strong in a few areas and keen to learn the rest.

About the company

An international product company is opening its first engineering hub in Sarajevo, and it’s looking for the people who will build it from day one.

The company builds a modern healthcare SaaS platform that is already used every day by real care providers. It’s part of a large, well-established healthcare organization, and the platform runs on a modern cloud-native stack, with no legacy code. The data environment includes MongoDB (on Atlas) as the main database, plus PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, cloud object storage, and ETL pipelines on Google Cloud Platform.

The first hires will form the core of the Sarajevo team and help shape how it works. The company name will be shared with shortlisted candidates.

Why should you apply?

Own the data platform behind a product that care organizations rely on every day
Work with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, and GCP
Build data practices like backup validation, anonymization, and access governance step by step
Work on a product with real impact: less paperwork for care workers means more time for the people they care for
Learn from people with long experience in the healthcare field

What will your day look like?

You will make sure the company’s databases and data systems are secure, reliable, fast, monitored, and backed up. You will report to the Engineering Lead and be their trusted data platform owner. You will also work closely with the Solution Architect, Software Engineers, DevOps, QA, Data & Analytics, Product, Release, and Delivery.

Own the setup, operation, security, performance, and reliability of databases and high-availability data systems
Manage object and file storage, including buckets, access control, and lifecycle management
Define data persistence practices across SQL, NoSQL, object storage, analytics storage, and integrations
Help engineers and architects choose the right data technologies, models, retrieval patterns, and integration approaches
Design, review, and optimize database models for performance, scalability, security, and data quality
Own backup, recovery, restore validation, retention, and disaster recovery for critical data
Create, review, and automate database migration scripts and database release practices
Run data integration workflows, ETL pipelines, and data movement between systems, analytics platforms, and external integrations
Build anonymization and pseudonymization procedures for testing, reporting, analysis, and regulatory needs
Manage data access rights, database roles, and controlled, auditable production data handling
Analyze existing databases for bottlenecks, security risks, modeling issues, and data quality problems
Work with DevOps on infrastructure as code, automation, monitoring, alerting, and secrets management
Support Engineering and QA with test data strategy, data refreshes, anonymized datasets, and data validation
Give clear input on data risks, migration impacts, and release readiness
Use AI-assisted tools for database analysis, script generation, documentation, and troubleshooting

You are the right candidate if you...

Have around 10 years of experience in database engineering, database operations, data engineering, or data platform engineering (depth matters more than the exact number)
Have strong hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, ideally PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB. Deep expertise in one or two, plus a willingness to learn the rest, is what counts
Have experience with managed cloud databases and storage, ideally on GCP, while AWS or Azure experience is also relevant
Have run high-availability production databases, including backups, recovery, and disaster recovery
Have written database migration scripts and supported automated database releases
Have built and run ETL pipelines and data integration workflows
Have managed data access rights, database roles, and production data procedures
Understand microservices, event-driven architecture, APIs, asynchronous messaging, and distributed systems
Have worked in Agile teams and with distributed teams across multiple locations
Can explain data risks and trade-offs clearly, turn problems into clear action plans, guide engineers, and raise data engineering standards
Speak fluent English
Experience with healthcare or regulated SaaS, GDPR and anonymization, BigQuery and data warehousing, improving messy data operations, Jira, Confluence or Bitbucket, and AI tools like GitHub Copilot is a strong plus

If you want to be the go-to data expert and help build a new engineering team from day one, apply or contact selmah@popcornrecruiters.com for more information.