Senior Database Administrator

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

Benefits offered by this job

100% company-paid health insurance

Performance-based bonuses

401(k) retirement plan

Stock options

Job summary

Adaptiva is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to lead design, development, and optimization of mission-critical databases powering enterprise products. Based in Kirkland, WA, this role focuses on high-scale PostgreSQL/SQL Server environments across development, staging, and production.

You will optimize performance, ensure availability, security, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex data challenges in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical discipline.
• Expertise in PostgreSQL; 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 systems.
• Hands-on DB performance improvement techniques including indexing, partitioning, and SQL tuning.
• Proficiency with PL/pgSQL and T-SQL and scripting (Bash) for automation.
• Strong data modeling and ERD skills; experience with data warehousing concepts.
• Knowledge of ETL/ELT processes and loading techniques.

Responsibilities

• Monitor database health, availability, and performance across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Plan capacity and infrastructure requirements for large-scale deployments.
• Troubleshoot and optimize complex SQL queries to improve scalability.
• Maintain and optimize PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases; support replication and clustering.
• Participate in design, development, and optimization of database solutions for enterprise products.
• Collaborate with QA, support, and engineering teams to identify root causes of issues.
• Engage with customers to diagnose DB bottlenecks and resolve data-related pain points.

Skills

PostgreSQL

MSSQL

SQL development

PL/pgSQL

T-SQL

Bash scripting

ERD/data modeling

Data warehousing (DW)

Kubernetes

Cloud Native Postgres

Postgres replication

Query optimization

ETL/ELT

Schema design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/IT

Tools

Elasticsearch

Loki

GitOps

Kubernetes Operator

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 discipline.
• 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 techniques (ETL/ELT, incremental loading, etc.)

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.