Senior Database Administrator

Adaptiva Corporation; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (100% paid by company

401(k) retirement plan

Stock options

Performance-based bonuses

Job summary

Adaptiva Corporation is seeking a Senior Database Administrator in Kirkland, WA to lead the design, development, and optimization of mission-critical database solutions. You will ensure database availability, reliability, and performance across development, staging, and production environments.

You will optimize complex SQL queries, support PostgreSQL and SQL Server, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve bottlenecks and security concerns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field.
• Expertise in PostgreSQL; MSSQL experience is a plus.
• Experience with complex SQL development, schema design, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience with PostgreSQL replication.
• Experience diagnosing and improving performance in large-scale or high-growth systems.
• Hands-on DB performance techniques including indexing, partitioning, and query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Monitor database health, availability, and resource utilization.
• Manage capacity planning and infrastructure requirements.
• Troubleshoot and optimize SQL queries for performance and scalability.
• Support on-prem and cloud databases (PostgreSQL and SQL Server).
• Perform database installation, configuration, upgrades, backups, migrations, and recovery.

Skills

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

SQL development

Query optimization

Performance tuning

Database design

PL/pgSQL

T-SQL

Bash scripting

Replication

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in CS/IT

Tools

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Elasticsearch

Loki

Kubernetes

GitOps

Job description

Adaptiva is a Gartner-recognized Leader in the Endpoint Management market.

We are a small, high-performance team, playing at the top end of this rapidly expanding market (TAM: $50B+, CAGR: 11%). Our customers include some of the world’s biggest and most respected companies, who rely on our technology to manage vast fleets of computers in their global environments. Our largest deployment scales to 450,000 devices in a complex worldwide network spanning 17,000 locations.

We provide a fast-paced and collaborative environment where driven, intellectually curious professionals come together to do the best work of their lives while growing quickly alongside the company.

Our success is fueled by a set of four core values: Integrity, Excellence, Work Ethic, and Dignity of Labor.

As we scale, we are expanding our team to bring our highly differentiated Agentic AI product suite to market, capitalizing on a significant first-mover advantage. For the right candidate, this represents a rare opportunity to help shape a category-defining company while accelerating their own professional trajectory.

We offer an industry-leading benefits package, including 100% company-paid health insurance, performance-based bonuses, a 401(k) retirement plan, and generous stock options that allow employees to participate in the company’s long-term success.

Shape the Future of Enterprise Data Platforms at Adaptiva

Adaptiva is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Database Administrator to join our growing engineering organization. Based in our Kirkland, Washington office, this full-time role offers the opportunity to lead the design, development, and optimization of mission-critical database solutions powering innovative enterprise products used by global organizations.

As a senior member of the development team, you will play a key role in optimizing performance for large-scale applications. Additionally, you will serve as the primary point of contact in supporting enterprise database systems across development, staging, and production environments. This role ensures database availability, reliability, scalability, security, and performance while supporting application development and business-critical data operations.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges and influencing the technical direction of critical database operations.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will:

Operations

Monitor database health, availability, resource utilization, and operational performance

Manage database capacity planning and infrastructure requirements

Troubleshooting and Optimization

Analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize complex SQL queries to improve database performance and system scalability

Demonstrate expertise of a pure DBA including strong troubleshooting and maintaining on-prem (PostgreSQL and SQL Server) and cloud databases

Database Design and Development support experience

All other basic DBA duty experiences: Database (PG and SQL Server) Installation, configuration and upgrades

Backup, migration and recovery plan and implementation

Routine code review to identify areas of SQL pertaining to security and vulnerabilities

Collaborate closely with QA, customer support, and cross-functional teams to identify root cause for all reported bugs

Work with customers directly on/off call to find the bottleneck of DB issues and pain points and resolve it

What we’re looking for:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical

Expertise in PostgreSQL, experience in MSSQL is a plus.

Expertise in complex SQL development, schema design, indexing, and query optimization

Experience with managing Postgres replication

Experience diagnosing and improving performance in large-scale or high-growth systems

Hands-on experience of DB performance improvement techniques including indexing, partitioning,

database schema improving, scaling and SQL query optimization (not limited)

Deep expertise of functional SQL development including PL/pgSQL and T-SQL along with scripting languages like Bash for automation and configuration

Strong knowledge of database schema design (ERD) and data modeling techniques (DW)

Basic knowledge of data ingestion (Scalability and reliability), transformation and loading

Preferred Skills

Familiarity with CloudNativePostgres Kubernetes operator

Familiarity with log aggregation tools such as Elasticsearch and Loki

Familiarity with gitOps and Infrastructure as Code principles

Ability to track and tune databases within a Kubernetes cluster, which may include hundreds to thousands of replicas and primary nodes

Experience with manage and troubleshoot Postgres clusters including failover and data replication

Some experience managing a database cluster hosted in a cloud SaaS environment

The annual base salary range for this position is $110,000 – $120,000, depending on experience and qualifications.

We do not provide visa sponsorship for this position and participate in E-Verify for work authorization.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or other legally protected status.