Senior PostgreSQL DBA — Cloud, HA, Remote & Relocation

remote work; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Flexible work from offices or remote

Healthcare Coverage

Education Budget

Wellness Budget

Vacation policy: 20 days

Job summary

Cloud Services Team is seeking a skilled Database Administrator to design, implement, and manage large-scale, high-performance databases across multiple technologies and environments. You will ensure reliability, scalability, and security of mission-critical systems while optimizing schemas, queries, and storage.

You will work with PostgreSQL across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Yandex Cloud, and automate operations with Python, Bash, and Go, using Terraform/OpenTofu/CloudFormation, Ansible, and GitLab

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on DBA experience in production, distributed environments.
• Deep PostgreSQL knowledge and performance tuning skills.
• Experience across major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Yandex Cloud).
• Proficiency in automation and scripting for ops tasks.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize database infrastructures for large-scale, high‑traffic workloads.
• Administer and maintain PostgreSQL clusters across environments.
• Design and implement backup, recovery, and DR strategies.
• Automate scaling, monitoring, and maintenance with IaC and CI/CD tools.
• Configure replication, sharding, and high-availability setups.
• Ensure SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR compliance and DB security best practices.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Distributed DBs

SQL tuning

Cloud platforms

Scripting: Python

Bash

Go

Kubernetes

Observability: Datadog

English

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitLab CI

Job description

Cloud Services Team is seeking a skilled Database Administrator to design, implement, and manage large-scale, high-performance databases across multiple technologies and environments. You will ensure reliability, scalability, and security of mission-critical systems while optimizing schemas, queries, and storage.

You will work with PostgreSQL across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Yandex Cloud, and automate operations with Python, Bash, and Go, using Terraform/OpenTofu/CloudFormation, Ansible, and GitLab