Principal Database Administrator (DBA)

Tasks

• Analyze execution plans
• Build backup restore automations
• Collaborate on schema changes
• Define SLIs/SLOs
• Define scalability roadmap
• Design monitoring architecture
• Drive high availability and disaster recovery
• Ensure compliance aligned data handling
• Execute partitioning and sharding strategies
• Implement credential management and security practices
• Manage connection pooling strategies
• Meet RPO/RTO targets
• Mentor and lead DBA operations
• Own database reliability
• Perform query optimization
• Remediate performance bottlenecks
• Set DBA technical standards

Perks/Benefits

• Continuous learning
• Hybrid work
• Remote work
• Stock options program
• Work-life balance program

Skills/Tech-stack

Ansible | ArgoCD | Automated Backup | Automated Backup Validation | Backup validation | Backup/Restore | CI/CD | Capacity forecasting | Cloud logging | Connection pooling | Data Partitioning | Database sharding | Disaster Recovery | Execution Plan | Execution Plan Analysis | GCP | GDPR | GKE | GitLab CI | GitOps | Grafana | High Availability | Indexing | Infrastructure as Code | Kafka | Kubernetes | Linux | MVCC | Monitoring | Observability | PCI DSS | Pgbouncer | Plan analysis | PostgreSQL | Prometheus | Query Optimization | SLI/SLO | SQL | Secrets management | Streaming replication | Terraform | Vacuum Tuning | Vault | VictoriaMetrics | WAL | “as-code”