Senior PostgreSQL DBA: HA, Cloud & Automation

Robotic Technologies Automation; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotic Technologies Automation in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a PostgreSQL-focused Database Engineer to own and optimize high-performance production databases. You will work on backup strategies, PITR, replication, and HA/DR implementations across cloud and on-prem environments.

The role requires hands-on tuning, version upgrades, and scripting (Shell/Python) to automate maintenance, monitor workloads, and ensure reliability for multi-terabyte datasets.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL architecture and internals.
• Hands-on experience with PITR and backup strategies.
• Experience with multi-terabyte production databases.
• Experience with HA/DR tooling (Repmgr, Pgpool, pgBackRest).
• Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day database operations, monitoring, and performance troubleshooting (CPU/load, locks, blocking, long-running queries).
• Perform minor and major PostgreSQL version upgrades.
• Maintain HA/DR tooling and ensure high availability.
• Manage cloud deployments on AWS and/or GCP (RDS/EC2).
• Automate maintenance with Shell/Python scripting.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Backup & PITR

High availability

Performance troubleshooting

Cloud deployments (AWS/GCP)

Kubernetes

Scripting (Shell/Python)

pgBackRest

Replication tools (Repmgr, Pgpool)

Version upgrades

Tools

AWS EC2/RDS

GCP (Compute, Cloud SQL)

Kubernetes

Job description

Robotic Technologies Automation in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a PostgreSQL-focused Database Engineer to own and optimize high-performance production databases. You will work on backup strategies, PITR, replication, and HA/DR implementations across cloud and on-prem environments.

The role requires hands-on tuning, version upgrades, and scripting (Shell/Python) to automate maintenance, monitor workloads, and ensure reliability for multi-terabyte datasets.