Senior Database Administrator
Summary
Senior Database Administrator to scale PostgreSQL clusters, build vector data capabilities, and automate database workflows for a fintech and AI company.
You will operate and scale high-throughput PostgreSQL and vector data platforms, improve reliability and disaster recovery, automate database workflows, strengthen observability and security, and support containerized infrastructure. You will partner with engineering and AI teams and participate in on-call rotations.
Responsibilities
- Scale and tune PostgreSQL clusters
- Own PostgreSQL reliability fundamentals
- Build and operate vector data capabilities
- Define production patterns for embeddings and vector indexes
- Strengthen high-availability and disaster-recovery procedures
- Automate database operations
- Improve observability and alert quality
- Enhance database security
- Contribute to containerized and infrastructure-as-code initiatives
- Partner with service, AI, and platform teams
- Participate in on-call rotations
Requirements
- 5+ years operating PostgreSQL in high-volume production environments
- PostgreSQL internals and operations
- High availability and read scaling
- Streaming replication
- Backup and restore
- Disaster recovery
- Connection pooling and traffic management
- VectorDB or vector search experience
- Vector index tradeoffs
- CI/CD
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Cloud, Linux, storage, and networking fundamentals
- Containers and Kubernetes
- Database security
- Observability
- Incident response
- Strong communication and collaboration
- Python, Go, or Rust scripting is a plus