Principal Database Administrator (DBA)

Tasks

• Analyze execution plans
• Build backup and restore automation
• Define SLIs and SLOs
• Define scalability roadmap
• Design monitoring architecture
• Drive high availability and disaster recovery
• Ensure compliance aligned data handling
• Implement database health monitoring alerts
• Implement database security practices
• Implement partitioning and sharding
• Manage PgBouncer connection pooling
• Manage credentials and secrets
• Mentor and set DBA standards
• Own database reliability
• Perform query optimization
• Remediate performance bottlenecks
• Support schema changes

Perks/Benefits

• Hybrid work model
• Professional development support
• Remote work flexibility
• Stock options
• Work and Swim program
• Work travel support

Skills/Tech-stack

Ansible | ArgoCD | B-Tree | BRIN | Backup and Restore | CI/CD | Capacity Planning | Cloud logging | Connection pooling | Disaster Recovery | Functions | GCP | GIST | GKE | Gin | GitLab CI | GitOps | Grafana | Indexing | Infrastructure as Code | Kafka | Kubernetes | Linux | MVCC | Partitioning | Pgbouncer | PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL internals | Prometheus | SLIs | SLOs | SQL | Sharding | Stored Procedures | Streaming replication | Terraform | Vacuum Tuning | Vault | VictoriaMetrics | WAL | “as-code”