Database Adminstrator

This role supports a large, multi-team engineering organization where individual engineering teams own their applications, and the DBA function provides shared operational expertise, performance guidance, and platform stewardship.

The DBA will work closely with existing DevOps teams on platform reliability, observability, and operational best practices, while providing direct support to the broader engineering organization as a database subject matter expert.

This is a highly hands-on role with direct impact.

The organization is relatively flat, with minimal barriers between identifying an issue and implementing a solution.

The DBA is expected to be actively involved in diagnosing problems, making improvements, and driving changes end-to-end rather than operating through layers of handoffs or approvals.

The focus is on keeping database platforms healthy, performant, secure, and scalable, while partnering with teams early in the design and development process.

Our environment is primarily AWS RDS, with a significant SQL Server footprint and a growing set of PostgreSQL workloads.

Most of the day-to-day work centers around performance analysis, query optimization, and operational troubleshooting, with an emphasis on proactive improvements over reactive firefighting.

Apply if you’re excited to:

Own hands-on database operations and support for SQL Server and PostgreSQL in a large, multi-team engineering organization

Work closely with DevOps teams to improve database reliability, observability, and day-to-day operations.

Proactively tune schemas, indexes, and queries to support evolving application workloads.

Diagnose and fix real performance problems: slow queries, poor execution plans, locking, and resource contention.

Proactively monitor database health and implement improvements before issues reach production.

Partner directly with engineering teams during design and development to guide data modeling and database usage.

About You:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Technology

Microsoft SQL Server and AWS certified

3–5 years’ experience as a Database Administrator

Demonstrated hands-on ownership of production SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases, including performance tuning and operational troubleshooting

Experience operating databases on AWS RDS, including upgrades, patching, maintenance windows, backups, and service-specific limitations

Strong working knowledge of query execution, indexing strategies, and performance diagnostics for both SQL Server and PostgreSQL

Proven ability to identify, diagnose, and resolve database performance and reliability issues in live production environments

Experience partnering directly with DevOps and application engineering teams to support and improve production systems

Comfort owning database changes end-to-end, from analysis and implementation through validation and rollback if needed

Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and observability for database systems and interpreting operational signals

Ability to communicate clearly and pragmatically about tradeoffs, risks, and impact to technical stakeholders

Full-time Employee