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title: 'Senior Database Administrator at Seon'
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# Senior Database Administrator at Seon

- **Company:** Seon
- **Location:** Budapest, Hungary
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/seon/7d2f7659-652d-41fc-a128-f7896b67dfa0

## Job description

SEON is the command center for fraud prevention and AML compliance, helping thousands of companies worldwide stop fraud, reduce risk and protect revenue. Powered by 900+ real-time, first-party data signals, SEON enriches customer profiles, flags suspicious behavior and streamlines compliance workflows - all from one place. SEON provides richer data, more flexible and transparent analysis, and faster time to value than any other provider on the market. We’ve helped companies reduce fraud by 95% and achieve 32x ROI, and we’re growing fast, thanks to our partnerships with some of the world’s most ambitious digital brands like Revolut, Wise, and Bilt. We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator to help operate and scale SEON’s database platforms as our products and data continue to grow. In this role, you will work across multiple database technologies, including PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, ClickHouse, and YugabyteDB, supporting a variety of workloads and use cases. Your focus will be to keep our database platforms reliable, scalable, observable, secure, and cost-efficient, while partnering closely with engineering teams on performance, architecture, and operational excellence. This role offers flexibility and can be based in Budapest with a hybrid schedule.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO:

- Operate, maintain, and scale database platforms that handle terabytes of data
- Design scalable, reliable database architectures for different workloads and availability requirements
- Support and optimize databases including PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, ClickHouse, and YugabyteDB
- Troubleshoot database issues and query performance bottlenecks across large datasets
- Improve schema design, data structures, migrations, and change management processes
- Partner with development teams during design and delivery to ensure robust, scalable solutions
- Assess and communicate technical risks and tradeoffs in database and platform decisions
- Contribute to monitoring, observability, security, backup, and recovery practices across the database estate
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as part of the team
- Support and guide team members in using database resources effectively and efficiently

## WHAT YOU’ll BRING:

- Strong experience designing and administering large-scale databases handling terabytes of data, with particular strength in PostgreSQL; experience with other database technologies such as Oracle, Aurora, or DB2 is also valued.
- Experience managing databases in at least one major cloud environment, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Strong knowledge of database design, configuration, maintenance, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
- Experience working with multiple database engines and understanding their operational tradeoffs
- Familiarity with database development processes, operational best practices, and reliability principles
- Basic knowledge of Terraform-managed databases or infrastructure as code
- Strong English communication skills

## (AMAZING IF YOU ALSO HAVE):

- Experience with Apache Kafka
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Grafana or similar observability tooling
- Scripting or coding skills in Bash or Python

SEON Technologies collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If you are a European Job Applicant see the [privacy notice](https://apply.workable.com/seon-technologies-1/gdpr_policy?lng=en) for further details. SEON is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to embrace what makes each one of us unique; we each have our own story. Whether looking at our current staff or future team members, we believe that everyone has something to contribute, and our employment practices reflect that. We do not make an employment decision based upon race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Please let your recruiter know if you need reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process.

## About Seon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SEON provides an AI-powered fraud prevention and AML compliance platform that uses over 900 real-time data signals to help businesses detect hidden threats, automate compliance, and deliver seamless customer experiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; $187mn total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Budapest, Hungary (with offices in Austin, London, Jakarta, and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Tamás Kádár and Bence Jendruszák

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Fraud prevention, AML compliance, identity verification, risk management
- **Target customers**: B2B – fintech, payments, eCommerce, iGaming, and other online businesses
- **Mission**: “Redefine global fraud prevention by safeguarding the entire customer journey, allowing businesses to operate confidently and stay ahead of evolving risks.” [seon.io/about-us](https://seon.io/about-us/)

## Products & Services
- **AI Fraud Prevention Platform**: Real-time risk scoring using 900+ first-party signals, device intelligence, behavioral analysis, and customizable rules/ML models. Covers pre-onboarding, onboarding, payments, and post-login activity. (SaaS)
- **AML Compliance Suite**: Automated AML screening, suspicious activity report (SAR/STR) generation, regulatory reporting, case management, and network analysis to detect money laundering rings. (SaaS)
- **Identity Verification**: Document, selfie, and address verification enriched with fraud signals to accelerate onboarding of legitimate users. (SaaS)
- **AI Tools & Automation**: AI rules builder, model tuning, score explainability, context-rich summaries, and AML screening agent that cross-validates hits. [seon.io](https://seon.io/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $187mn (Series C led by Sixth Street); has prevented over $300bn in fraud and money laundering; serves 5,000+ businesses globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sixth Street (lead investor, Series C); global partner program launched in 2025.
- **Growth Signals**: Grew from 200 to 300+ employees between 2024 and 2026; opened offices in London (2025) and Singapore (2026); launched identity verification and opened data layer to external AI tools (2026); daily transactions secured exceed 15 million. [seon.io/about-us](https://seon.io/about-us/) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seon-tech)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data breadth**: 900+ first-party real-time signals (device, IP, email, behavioral) that other tools miss.
- **Speed of implementation**: Average 14 days from deployment to impact, with hands-on support.
- **Transparent AI**: Every decision is explainable and auditable – users see which signals drove the risk score.
- **End-to-end coverage**: Single platform covers fraud prevention, AML, identity verification, and regulatory reporting across the customer lifecycle.
- **Flexible analysis**: Supports both rules-based and AI-driven approaches with full customisation. [seon.io](https://seon.io/)

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-driven efficiency**: Cutting manual review time by up to 50% through automated case summaries, model tuning, and AI-generated regulatory reports.
- **Global expansion**: New offices in APAC (Singapore) and EMEA (London) to serve a growing international customer base.
- **Platform extensibility**: Opening data layer to third-party AI tools and building a partner ecosystem.
- **Identity verification launch**: Expanding from fraud detection into identity assurance to cover the full onboarding journey. [seon.io/about-us](https://seon.io/about-us/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “No hierarchy,” open communication, transparency, customer obsession, innovation, and ownership. [seon.io/careers](https://seon.io/careers/)
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – encouraged to work from home a few days per week, with office collaboration the rest.
- **Perks**: Flexible hours, private health insurance, enhanced parental leave, employee assistance & mental health support, ESOP (employee stock ownership plan), weekly language courses (40+ languages), learning & development budget.
- **Team**: 300+ employees across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC; 120+ R&D engineers; strong emphasis on impact and autonomy.
- **Growth**: Rapidly scaling company with clear career progression and exposure to cutting-edge AI/ML fraud-fighting technology. [seon.io/careers](https://seon.io/careers/) [apply.workable.com](https://apply.workable.com/seon-technologies-1/)

## Sources
1. [seon.io – Product overview](https://seon.io/)
2. [seon.io/careers – Careers & perks](https://seon.io/careers/)
3. [seon.io/about-us – Mission, milestones, team](https://seon.io/about-us/)
4. [linkedin.com – Company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seon-tech)
5. [apply.workable.com – Open positions (archived)](https://apply.workable.com/seon-technologies-1/)

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