Remote Senior Database Administrator for Scalable SaaS

PDQ; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4-Day Work Week

Equity Participation

Professional development support

100% Premium Coverage for medical, etc

Company matching 6% 401(k)

Job summary

PDQ, a Salt Lake City-based company, is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to build, manage, and optimize databases for a growing SaaS platform. The role emphasizes data integrity, availability, and performance at scale across engineering teams.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years of database experience, PostgreSQL expertise, and strong SQL tuning skills. This remote US role offers growth, strong benefits, and a collaborative engineering culture at PDQ.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience managing databases at scale.
• SaaS environment with high-availability requirements.
• Strong grasp of OLTP databases, specifically PostgreSQL in high-volume environments.
• Experience with database replication, partitioning, sharding and clustering.
• Proficiency in SQL performance tuning, query optimization and schema design.
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Knowledge of backup and recovery tools and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing database architecture solutions that scale with our growing SaaS platform.
• Leading database performance tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting initiatives.
• Investigating and resolving complex production database performance and availability issues, including identifying root causes, mitigating incidents, and driving long-term improvements.
• Collaborating with software development teams to optimize database queries and schema designs.
• Collaborating with DevOps teams to automate routine database administration tasks and maintenance procedures.
• Extending and maintaining database observability tools to monitor performance and capacity, and analyze historical data to identify trends and proactively address issues.
• Implementing and maintaining database security measures and access controls.
• Mentoring and teaching engineering teams in writing optimized and performant database queries.

Skills

Database administration

PostgreSQL expertise

SQL performance tuning

Automation scripting

GCP exposure

Tools

Terraform

Git / GitHub

Prometheus

Grafana

Cloud SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

PDQ, a Salt Lake City-based company, is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to build, manage, and optimize databases for a growing SaaS platform. The role emphasizes data integrity, availability, and performance at scale across engineering teams.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years of database experience, PostgreSQL expertise, and strong SQL tuning skills. This remote US role offers growth, strong benefits, and a collaborative engineering culture at PDQ.