Senior Database Administrator

What you'll do

• Operate and improve production, staging, and development database systems; investigate performance issues and plan upgrades, capacity, and safe schema changes.
• Build observability and incident-response practices, participate in on-call, and develop Go and Python tools and infrastructure automation.
• Apply AI tools to incident investigation and engineering, while verifying outputs against production evidence; support security, compliance, standards, and mentoring.

What they ask for

• 5+ years operating production relational databases as a DBA, Database Reliability Engineer, or Data Platform Engineer.
• Deep production experience with PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, or another relational database management system; knowledge of SQL internals and distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Write automation in Python or Go; debug and suggest fixes to Java or similar line-of-business code.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and monitoring/observability; UNIX/Linux administration, shell scripting, cloud-platform familiarity, and willingness to join on-call.

Nice to have

• AWS is preferred; Azure or GCP are welcome.
• Run CockroachDB in production; PostgreSQL open-source contribution, Kafka, Materialize, ClickHouse Cloud, Snowflake, or SRE practice are additional candidate evidence.

Tools

CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, Go, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, Loki

AI focus

Use Claude Code, Codex, and similar AI harnesses for incident investigation, probe generation, runbooks, and tooling; evaluate AI-assisted observability and anomaly detection, and verify generated output against production evidence.