Database Architect
Location: Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey, Croatia - Remote, Spain - Remote, Greece - Remote, Poland - Remote
Time Type: Full time
Job Description
Acronis is a world leader in cyber protection, delivering natively integrated solutions that monitor, control, and protect the data that businesses and lives depend on. Driven by our passion to protect every workload, we’ve built the industry’s only all-in-one cyber protection platform. We are looking for a Database Architect to join our mission of protecting the digital world.Acronis operates a complex, large-scale data platform powering hundreds of services worldwide. Our technology stack includes highly available clustered relational (PostgreSQL, MariaDB), NoSQL (Cassandra), time-series, and vector databases, operating under extremely high load.
In this role, you will play a key part in evolving database architecture and operational processes to ensure scalable, automated, and reliable data processing across company services and global datacenters. You will also contribute to data quality initiatives and the adoption of AI-driven and analytics-oriented data solutions.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Design and evolve database architecture across Acronis cloud products, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance
Define and promote best practices for relational, NoSQL, time-series, and vector databases across different workloads
Design and review data migration approaches, ensuring data integrity, security, and minimal service impact
Contribute to database automation initiatives in collaboration with Database DevOps and Infrastructure teams
Participate in data quality initiatives across multiple systems, improving consistency and correctness of data
Work closely with engineering teams on database design decisions, performance optimization, and complex data issues
Support adoption of AI-driven and analytics-oriented data solutions
Provide architectural reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing across teams
WHAT YOU BRING
5+ years of experience working with production databases in complex environments
Strong expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL) and solid understanding of database architecture principles
Experience with performance optimization, scalability patterns, and data modeling
Hands-on experience with database migrations and schema evolution in production systems
Understanding of high availability, backup, monitoring, and recovery concepts
Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and DevOps teams
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Fluent English with strong written and verbal communication skills
WILL BE A PLUS
Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra) or distributed data systems
Exposure to time-series and/or vector databases
Experience with data quality, reconciliation, or cross-system consistency projects
Familiarity with search and indexing technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch or similar)
Kubernetes experience (including databases running on Kubernetes)
Experience with public cloud DBaaS platforms (GCP, Azure, or similar)
Programming or scripting experience (Python, Go)
Experience with automation tools or infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible)
Experience working with Jira, Git, and Confluence
MORE ABOUT OUR TEAM
A team of database experts who value collaboration, share knowledge openly, care deeply about reliability and stability, and embrace change by solving complex challenges with unique solutions.
1000+ database clusters globally (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MariaDB as expertise)
IaC automation based on Ansible, integrated with CI/CD (Jenkins + Python tools)
Kubernetes adoption for both in-house tools and vendor-provided database images
Centralized observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
Infrastructure fully operated in Acronis datacenters worldwide
*Please submit your resume and application in English
WHO WE ARE
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis offers over twenty years of innovation with 15 offices worldwide and more than 1800 employees in 50+ countries. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses.
Our corporate culture is focused on making a positive impact on the lives of each employee and the communities we serve. Mutual trust, respect and belief that we can contribute to the world everyday are the cornerstones of our team. Each member of our “A-Team” plays an instrumental role in driving the success of our innovative and expanding business. We seek individuals who excel in dynamic, global environments and have a never give up attitude, contributing to our collective growth and impact.
OUR INTERVIEW PRACTICES
To ensure a fair and genuine hiring process, candidates are expected to participate in interviews without the use of AI tools, automated prompts, or third-party assistance. Interviews are designed to assess individual skills, experience, and communication style and we value authentic, real-time interaction.
Use of AI or external assistance during live interviews may result in disqualification. For roles where AI skills are being evaluated, permitted use of AI tools will be clearly communicated in advance. Candidates may be asked to disable virtual backgrounds or participate in in-person interviews. All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of applicable criminal, education and identity background checks
Acronis is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
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