Database Administrator
R&DFull-time
Take ownership of complex technological problems.
We are monday.com, a global software company transforming how businesses run. Our product suite can adapt to the needs of diverse industries and use cases within one powerful platform, empowering ~250,000 customers worldwide to reimagine how work gets done, drive greater efficiency, and scale like never before.
With over 3,000 employees across the globe, we grow by prioritizing transparency and knowledge sharing. We care about the impact you make, not the hours you clock, so we encourage initiative, ownership, and fresh thinking. We back our people with flexible work, wellness and mental health support, and a work environment built on collaboration.
We fully embrace the AI revolution and we equip you with AI-powered IDEs, customizable agent rules, prompt engineering tools to streamline your workflow and AI-infused CI/CD pipelines designed to boost speed and reliability. You'll also tap into AI-driven insights, helping you make smarter decisions, faster.
The role is based in our Warsaw office - established in 2022, it is a growing hub for engineers who love solving impactful problems. Teams here work on a broad range of challenges that push the boundaries of our products and infrastructure. Dive into these blog posts to discover the kind of work that could be waiting for you:
- Detecting traffic anomalies at scale
- Managing Trace Volume at monday.com
- How we mastered Content Security Policy
- Guarding the herd – managing database servers at scale
We're looking for a Database Administrator to join our rapidly growing DBRE team. This is an amazing opportunity to join a fast growing company and make an immediate and real impact on the future of our product. The DBRE team is responsible for the hundreds of production (and pre-production) database environments that run monday.com. It’s a high-scale environment with systems running hundreds of thousands of queries per second, and it grows all the time.
About The Role
Take ownership of complex technological problems.
We are monday.com, a global software company transforming how businesses run. Our product suite can adapt to the needs of diverse industries and use cases within one powerful platform, empowering ~250,000 customers worldwide to reimagine how work gets done, drive greater efficiency, and scale like never before.
With over 3,000 employees across the globe, we grow by prioritizing transparency and knowledge sharing. We care about the impact you make, not the hours you clock, so we encourage initiative, ownership, and fresh thinking. We back our people with flexible work, wellness and mental health support, and a work environment built on collaboration.
We fully embrace the AI revolution and we equip you with AI-powered IDEs, customizable agent rules, prompt engineering tools to streamline your workflow and AI-infused CI/CD pipelines designed to boost speed and reliability. You'll also tap into AI-driven insights, helping you make smarter decisions, faster.
The role is based in our Warsaw office - established in 2022, it is a growing hub for engineers who love solving impactful problems. Teams here work on a broad range of challenges that push the boundaries of our products and infrastructure. Dive into these blog posts to discover the kind of work that could be waiting for you:
- Detecting traffic anomalies at scale
- Managing Trace Volume at monday.com
- How we mastered Content Security Policy
- Guarding the herd – managing database servers at scale
We're looking for a Database Administrator to join our rapidly growing DBRE team. This is an amazing opportunity to join a fast growing company and make an immediate and real impact on the future of our product. The DBRE team is responsible for the hundreds of production (and pre-production) database environments that run monday.com. It’s a high-scale environment with systems running hundreds of thousands of queries per second, and it grows all the time.
- Be responsible for the reliability of the databases, making sure they run smoothly while providing the required performance and scale.
- Take part in the team’s projects including building automations for complex scenarios, automating observability, and introducing new technologies to the company.
- Support our developers when designing new features and migrating data.
- Build robust scripts and solutions to allow DB self management by developers
- Use and develop change management solutions using Terraform and other tools
- As data is at the core of the product, you will have a direct impact on the manageability, availability and performance of monday.com
- You will be working with a small team of experienced and highly talented engineers with cutting edge technologies while taking full responsibility and ownership from conception to post-deployment in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
The team’s stack - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, and we are also using AWS, Go, Python, Kubernetes, Linux, Node.js
Your Experience & Skills
- Proven working experience and deep understanding of RDBMS (MySQL / PostgreSQL/ Oracle / SQL Server / etc).
- Experience of at least 5+ years with performance optimization and scaling out data worldwide.
- Coding experience and understanding of code and software environment.
- Experience and understanding of cloud environments and tools.
- Experience in leading projects, POCing different technologies and rolling out new solutions to the production environment.
- Great skills of seeing a big picture and system architecture planning.
- Team player, egoless, strong communication skills, and empathy.
- Degree in Computer Science (not a must; we're always looking for super talented people).
- Advantage: working with NoSQL databases like Elasticsearch and Cassandra.
Salary & Compensation
At monday.com, our total compensation package includes:
- Base salary
- Bonus target
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
The total target monthly compensation for this role ranges from 40,000 PLN to 59,000 PLN.
The total compensation package shown here reflects the current monday.com stock price and may change over time as the stock price varies. The target bonus and RSU grant are discretionary, depend on individual and company performance, and are subject to Board approval and the company’s equity plan, in line with monday.com’s bonus policy as updated from time to time. The benefits listed reflect programs currently offered in Poland; availability and terms may vary depending on the role, contract type, and company policy. These details do not constitute an employment offer or guarantee and may be modified at the company’s discretion, in accordance with applicable law.
We believe in equal opportunity.
At monday.com, we believe everyone should feel they belong - exactly as they are. We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to an open, accessible, and inclusive workplace free from discrimination or harassment of any kind.
All qualified candidates will be considered for employment, regardless of race, color, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, pregnancy, family or parental status, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need support or accommodation during the hiring process, we’re here to help.
At monday.com, we believe everyone should feel they belong - exactly as they are. We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to an open, accessible, and inclusive workplace free from discrimination or harassment of any kind.
All qualified candidates will be considered for employment, regardless of race, color, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, pregnancy, family or parental status, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need support or accommodation during the hiring process, we’re here to help.
Meet the R&D team
The R&D Team is passionate about building innovative and lovable products, while tackling complex engineering problems at a great scale. We’re accountable for bringing the company’s vision to life by navigating our progress into flawless execution and encouraging full ownership and independence in all projects.
