DBA Engineer - Social Discovery Ventures

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is one of the world's largest groups of social discovery companies, uniting millions of users on dozens of products. SDG solves the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection - transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal. SDG products redefine the way people interact and connect with each other.

Our portfolio includes social entertainment platforms designed to connect people online across different cultures in different parts of the world. This includes globally recognized brands such as DateMyAge, Dating.com, EuroDate, Dil Mil and Cupid Media. SDG has a presence in more than 150 countries.

We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals specializing in the creation and development of globally impactful social discovery products. Our international team of 1000+ professionals and digital nomads works all over the world. Our teams of digital nomads work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Poland, Latvia, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, UAE, Israel, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and many other locations.

We’re proud to be a two-time “Great Place to Work” winner (USA & Japan, 2024–2025) and a Top-5 Company for Work-From-Anywhere Jobs (FlexJobs, 2025).

We are looking for DBA Engineer.

Your main tasks will be:

• Optimizing the performance of the database infrastructure (queries, indexes, locks, CPU/RAM/disk resource usage, etc.).
• Solving performance issues within short timeframes, supporting business-critical services.
• Analyzing and optimizing stored procedures, functions, and triggers.
• Diagnosing and resolving performance issues.
• Carrying out routine database administration tasks (deployment and support of SQL Server infrastructure, including instances and databases, backup and recovery, security, monitoring, maintenance, data integrity checks, index and statistics maintenance, etc.).
• Optimizing administration processes for multiple SQL Server instances.
• Creating and maintaining replications (transactional, snapshot, merge), working with Always On and Log Shipping.
• Collaborating with backend/devops/infrastructure teams on shared tasks.
• Updating production systems with patches in automatic and, less frequently, manual mode.
• Assisting other departments with data retrieval.
• Participating in the design of data storage architecture and scaling approaches.

We expect from you:

Hard Skills – Must Have

• Deep knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server architecture and internals. • Expert-level experience with SQL Server versions 2016–2019. • Practical experience optimizing high-load systems and identifying performance bottlenecks. • Excellent knowledge of T-SQL, including writing and optimizing stored pro