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Database Administrator, DBA
Location
United States
Posted
71 days ago
Salary
$175K - $195K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Database Administrator, DBA
Authentic8
• Own the availability, incident response, and operational health of the company’s PostgreSQL platform databases (Eng, QA, and Production) • Ensure high availability and disaster recovery processes are tested and functioning. • Implement PostgreSQL changes with minimal service interruption. • Perform live schema updates and patches in coordination with Engineering and DevOps. • Plan for database growth, execute tuning analysis, and conduct performance optimization. • Review and assist with SQL query optimization, identify and resolve deadlocks. • Coordinate schema deployments with DevOps. • Support ad hoc query needs from Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing teams. • Ensure all PostgreSQL security best practices are applied and monitored. • Help restructure or re-architect current and future databases to support performance and scalability. • Lead data integration projects that centralize company data from multiple systems into one or more centralized data pools (e.g., BigQuery). • Architect and implement data pipelines (ETL/ELT) from systems such as Salesforce (CRM), Zuora (billing and revenue management), PostgreSQL (service data), Pendo.io (product analytics), Freshdesk (customer support/ticketing), Jira (work management and issue tracking). • Partner closely with Business Operations analysts to: Align on data models and schema designs that support reporting and analytics as well as build performant queries and transformations for ongoing business intelligence. • Ensure centralized data repositories are clean, consistent, and optimized for analysis. • Implement monitoring and alerting for data pipeline health and performance.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience as a DBA
- 8+ years of experience supporting SaaS platforms
- 4+ years of experience working with automation tools and workflows
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL (strongly preferred)
- Ability to design and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
- Ability to work with APIs and third-party integrations for platforms like Salesforce and Jira
- Strong SQL skills and proficiency with data modeling
- Familiarity with cloud-based data warehousing solutions (e.g., BigQuery, Kestrel)
- Experience working in cross-functional teams including Engineering, DevOps, and Business Operations
- Excellent documentation and communication skills
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- flexible PTO
- 401k program
- stock options
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