Senior MariaDB & PostgreSQL DBA – HA & Automation

Red Oak Technologies; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Oak Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to own production MariaDB and PostgreSQL environments in a hybrid remote-ready setup. You will ensure high availability, performance, and reliable backups in a Linux-based stack.

The role requires hands-on expertise with HA architectures, replication, failover, and disaster recovery, plus scripting in Python or Go and IaC tooling like Terraform and Ansible.

Qualifications

• Experience as Database Administrator (DBA) in production environments.
• Hands-on MariaDB HA deployment and management.
• Hands-on PostgreSQL HA deployment and management.
• Knowledge of replication, clustering, failover, backup, restore, and disaster recovery.
• Proficient with Linux (Rocky Linux/CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu).
• Experience with Python, Go, or similar scripting languages.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support highly available MariaDB and PostgreSQL environments.
• Support HA architectures, replication, clustering, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoot replication failures and production incidents.
• Monitor health, availability, capacity, and performance.
• Tune performance and resolve slow queries.
• Develop backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Review architecture for reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to open-source DB technologies including MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and TiDB.
• Automate provisioning and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code.
• Work with Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop automation tooling using Python or Go.
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, infra, and engineering teams.
• Expand to Redis/FoundationDB as needed.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Database administration

HA replication troubleshooting

Linux environments

Scripting (Python/Go)

IaC tooling

CI/CD knowledge

DevOps collaboration

On-call readiness

Tools

MariaDB

PostgreSQL

TiDB

Terraform

Kubernetes

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Go

Redis

FoundationDB

Job description

Red Oak Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to own production MariaDB and PostgreSQL environments in a hybrid remote-ready setup. You will ensure high availability, performance, and reliable backups in a Linux-based stack.

The role requires hands-on expertise with HA architectures, replication, failover, and disaster recovery, plus scripting in Python or Go and IaC tooling like Terraform and Ansible.