Remote Senior PostgreSQL DBA - Scale Public-Sector SaaS

VIMO INC; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, life, disability, and

401k retirement benefits

Paid time off

Education assistance

Employee discounts for gym memberships

Job summary

VIMO INC is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to design, deploy, and optimize PostgreSQL clusters powering our SaaS platform. You will ensure high availability, security, and scalable performance across production, staging, and development environments.

You will work with development, DevOps, and infra teams to plan upgrades, implement backups, and automate routine tasks using Bash, Python, and IaC tools. Strong in cloud PostgreSQL and DR planning is essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years as a PostgreSQL DBA in production environments.
• Deep PostgreSQL internals including MVCC, WAL, replication and pooling.
• Experience with backup/recovery tools and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience with high-availability architectures and cloud PostgreSQL.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills.
• Knowledge of database security, compliance and access management.
• Experience with AWS RDS/Aurora or other cloud PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL clusters in production, staging, and development.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery via replication and backups.
• Monitor performance, optimize queries, and tune configurations.
• Plan upgrades, migrations, and major version transitions with minimal downtime.
• Enforce database security practices including encryption and audit logging.
• Automate routine DBA tasks with Bash/Python and IaC tools.
• Collaborate on schema design and data modeling with development teams.
• Manage PostgreSQL in AWS/Azure/GCP cloud environments.
• Maintain standards, runbooks, and participate in on-call rotations.
• Evaluate extensions (PostGIS, pg_partman, Citus, pgvector) as needed.

Skills

PostgreSQL DBA expertise

Performance tuning

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Linux/Unix administration

Security/compliance awareness

Disaster recovery planning

Cloud PostgreSQL (AWS/Aurora)

High availability design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

pg_dump

pg_basebackup

pgBackRest

Barman

Patroni

repmgr

Terraform

Ansible

Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

VIMO INC is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to design, deploy, and optimize PostgreSQL clusters powering our SaaS platform. You will ensure high availability, security, and scalable performance across production, staging, and development environments.

You will work with development, DevOps, and infra teams to plan upgrades, implement backups, and automate routine tasks using Bash, Python, and IaC tools. Strong in cloud PostgreSQL and DR planning is essential for success.