albo
albo is a leading fintech company offering financial products to individuals and SMB's with the mission to bring financial freedom to everyone everywhere.
About the job
At albo, we are looking for a high-performing Database Administrator (DBA) to manage, optimize, and scale our core financial data infrastructure.
You will oversee a unique hybrid environment powering critical services, including Mexico's SPEI payment system.
We seek a professional with a performance-first mindset who actively leverages AI tools to accelerate troubleshooting, automate repetitive tasks, and optimize database workloads.
What you'll be doing at albo:
- **Multi-Engine Management**: Administer and monitor our hybrid database ecosystem**:SingleStoreDB**, **MongoDB**, and **MySQL (Cloud and On-premise)**.
- **Mission-Critical Operations**: Guarantee *****% availability and robust security for our on-premise MySQL instances driving the **SPEI** platform.
- **Performance Tuning**: Proactively identify bottlenecks, optimize complex queries, refine indexes, and manage partitioning to ensure millisecond-level latencies.
- **AI Acceleration**: Integrate Generative AI tools into your daily workflow to speed up log analysis, automate scripting, and simulate load scenarios.
- **Scalability & Architecture**:



Collaborate with Backend and Data Engineering teams to design scalable data models prepared for high-volume growth.
- **Security & Compliance**: Maintain strict backup policies, disaster recovery plans (DRP), and access controls adhering to fintech regulations.
About you and the type of skill you'll need:
- **Experience**: 4+ years as a DBA in high-transaction, production environments.
- **Technical Stack**: Strong hands-on experience with **MySQL**, **MongoDB**, and distributed databases like **SingleStoreDB** (or similar).
- **Performance Obsessed**: Deep expertise in execution plans, query optimization, and hardware/resource tuning (CPU, I/O, Memory).
- **AI-Powered Workflow**: Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to increase efficiency, automate tasks, and write robust infrastructure scripts.
- **Fintech/Banking Background**: Experience handling critical financial systems or payment gateways (knowledge of SPEI regulations is a major plus).
- **Automation Skills**: Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible) is highly valued.
- **High Availability & DRP**: Another major plus is to have expertise in advanced database replication strategies, hands-on experience with cross-site replication for Disaster Recovery (DRP) and configuring Group Replication to build highly resilient, fault-tolerant clusters.

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