Senior Database Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +20 more states.

📋 Description

• Design and develop database architecture solutions that accommodate the growth of PDQ’s SaaS platform.

• Lead initiatives focused on database performance tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting.

• Investigate and resolve intricate production database performance and availability challenges, identify root causes, mitigate incidents, and drive long-term enhancements.

• Work collaboratively with software development teams to refine database queries and schema designs.

• Partner with DevOps teams to automate standard database administration tasks and maintenance processes.

• Enhance and maintain database observability tools to track performance and capacity, analyze historical data, identify trends, and proactively address issues.

• Implement and uphold database security protocols and access controls.

• Mentor and instruct engineering teams on crafting optimized and high-performance database queries.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience managing databases at scale.

• Experience in a SaaS environment with critical high-availability requirements.

• Strong understanding of OLTP databases, particularly PostgreSQL, in high-volume settings.

• Familiarity with database replication, partitioning, sharding, and clustering.

• Expertise in SQL performance tuning, query optimization, and schema design.

• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or similar.

• Knowledge of backup and recovery tools and methodologies.

• Experience with cloud platforms, particularly GCP and Cloud SQL.

• Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.

• Proficiency with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP SQL Query Insights.

• Experience troubleshooting PostgreSQL WAL and VACUUM behavior.

• Familiarity with OLAP columnar databases, including ClickHouse.

• Detail-oriented, organized, and a strong team player.

• Independent, highly motivated, and solution-oriented mindset.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, especially in building authentic business relationships.

• Must be eligible to work in the United States; most of PDQ’s full-time positions do not qualify for employment visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• 4-Day Work Week.

• Equity Participation.

• Managers who support professional development.

• 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents.

• 100% premium coverage for Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance.

• Company match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals.

• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy.

• Health Savings Account (HSA) and wellness incentives.

• Quarterly Company Values Award (team member nominated).