Title: Senior PostgreSQL DBA (Database Administrator)
Location: Onsite – Mountain View, CA
Experience: 8+ years
Job Summary
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior PostgreSQL DBA to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in managing, optimizing, and scaling PostgreSQL databases in a Kubernetes-based environment that utilizes sharding and pods for high availability and distributed workloads. The role requires deep technical expertise, an ownership mindset, and hands-on experience working with mission-critical, high-throughput database systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL clusters
- Manage sharded database architecture and performance across multiple pods in Kubernetes
- Optimize database performance, indexing, query tuning, and vacuuming strategies
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve database issues including replication, failover, and storage
- Automate backups, recovery plans, and database provisioning
- Ensure database security, access control, and compliance with client policies
- Collaborate with DevOps and application teams to ensure smooth database operations and integrations
- Participate in incident management and on-call support for database-related production issues
- Perform database capacity planning, data partitioning, and archiving strategies
Technical Skills & Experience Required
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with PostgreSQL administration
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL performance tuning, replication, and backup/restore mechanisms
- Experience with database sharding, partitioning, and horizontal scaling
- Solid understanding of AWS services such as EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, S3, CloudWatcha
- Proficient in writing SQL, PL/pgSQL, and automation scripts (Bash, Python, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, or pgBadger
- Experience integrating with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Strong understanding of database security, auditing, and access control
Desirable Skills
- Exposure to cloud-native PostgreSQL services (e.g., Amazon RDS/Aurora, GCP Cloud SQL, Azure PostgreSQL)
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL extensions like PostGIS, TimescaleDB, etc.
- Knowledge of high availability tools (Patroni, Pgpool-II, Stolon, etc.)
- Exposure to multi-tenant or microservices-based architectures
- Knowledge of cloud cost optimization for database infrastructure
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
Soft Skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and proactive mindset
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with cross-functional teams
- Comfortable in client-facing roles, especially during incidents and design discussions
- Willingness to mentor junior DBAs and support team knowledge sharing
We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide employment, compensation, and other benefits related to employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran status, age, genetic information, citizenship, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $70.00 - $90.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
