Senior PostgreSQL DBA — High Availability & Cloud-Ready

GetInsured; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & vision insurance

401k retirement benefits

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Vimo is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to design, implement, and optimize our mission‑critical PostgreSQL environments supporting a SaaS platform for state health and human services. You will ensure high availability, security, and scalability while collaborating with DevOps, development, and infra teams.

You will lead performance tuning, capacity planning, and disaster recovery planning, and automate routines with Bash/Python and IaC tools.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL DBA experience in production.
• Deep PostgreSQL internals knowledge (MVCC, WAL, vacuum, replication).
• Experience with backup/recovery tools and HA architectures.
• Experience with cloud-hosted PostgreSQL services (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Security, access management, and compliance in database environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL clusters in multiple environments.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and secure backups.
• Monitor performance, optimize queries, indexing, and configuration.
• Plan upgrades and migrations with minimal downtime.
• Implement security best practices and audit logging.
• Automate tasks with Bash/Python and IaC tools like Terraform or Jenkins.
• Collaborate on schema design and data modeling with dev teams.
• Manage PostgreSQL in cloud environments (AWS/Aurora, etc.).
• Maintain standards, runbooks, and participate in on-call rotations.
• Evaluate extensions (PostGIS, pg_partman, Citus, etc.).

Skills

PostgreSQL expert

Linux/Unix

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Cloud PostgreSQL (AWS RDS/Aurora, GCP,

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

pg_dump

pg_basebackup

pgBackRest

Patroni/repmgr or equivalent

Job description

Vimo is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to design, implement, and optimize our mission‑critical PostgreSQL environments supporting a SaaS platform for state health and human services. You will ensure high availability, security, and scalability while collaborating with DevOps, development, and infra teams.

You will lead performance tuning, capacity planning, and disaster recovery planning, and automate routines with Bash/Python and IaC tools.