Senior PostgreSQL DBA – Platform Reliability

Allstate; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate is seeking an experienced Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join the Database Engineering team. You will design, implement, automate, secure, and operate enterprise PostgreSQL environments across on-premises and cloud platforms, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.

The role emphasizes leadership in migrations, DR planning, and reliability, with collaboration across application, security, SRE, and cloud engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of database administration experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience in mission-critical environments.
• Strong Linux administration and networking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, administer, and support PostgreSQL environments across production and non-production landscapes.
• Lead installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and migrations.
• Define and maintain engineering standards, reference architectures, and runbooks.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership for PostgreSQL initiatives.

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

Linux administration

High availability

SRE collaboration

Performance tuning

Tools

Patroni

etcd

HAProxy

Keepalived

pgBackRest

Job description

Allstate is seeking an experienced Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join the Database Engineering team. You will design, implement, automate, secure, and operate enterprise PostgreSQL environments across on-premises and cloud platforms, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.

The role emphasizes leadership in migrations, DR planning, and reliability, with collaboration across application, security, SRE, and cloud engineering teams.