Remote PostgreSQL DBA | AWS & Cloud

Daxko; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Health insurance

Monthly fitness reimbursement

401(k) matching

New-Parent Paid Leave

Casual work environments

Remote & Hybrid

Job summary

Daxko is seeking a Database Administrator to own the health and performance of our databases powering our fitness, wellness, and community software. You will collaborate with Engineering, QA, and Technical Services to ensure reliability, efficient releases, and ongoing skill growth in a hands-on role from day one.

You will manage schema design, backups, failover, and performance tuning across production and development environments, while supporting cross-team data imports/exports and

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience with Postgres, AWS Aurora, or MySQL.
• Ability to read and analyze query execution plans to diagnose performance issues.
• Availability for some nights and weekends for on-call rotation.
• Clear written and verbal communication across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Own DBA responsibilities for assigned Daxko product lines, including schema design, user and permission management, and database object maintenance.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune database performance across production and development environments.
• Manage backup, recovery, and failover clustering setups to keep systems available and resilient.
• Partner with Engineering and QA teams on performance reviews for releases and schema changes.
• Support Technical Services on customer-impacting database issues, moving quickly and communicating clearly.
• Help teams import and export data across multiple database platforms.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and respond to production incidents as needed.

Skills

Query plan analysis

Excellent communication

On-call readiness

Independent worker

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS Aurora

MySQL

Job description

Daxko is seeking a Database Administrator to own the health and performance of our databases powering our fitness, wellness, and community software. You will collaborate with Engineering, QA, and Technical Services to ensure reliability, efficient releases, and ongoing skill growth in a hands-on role from day one.

You will manage schema design, backups, failover, and performance tuning across production and development environments, while supporting cross-team data imports/exports and