Senior PostgreSQL DBA — Remote, High-Impact SaaS Databases

Talentify; Mountain View (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Gym discounts

Job summary

Vimo is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to design, implement, and optimize PostgreSQL environments powering a state-based SaaS platform.

You will ensure high availability, security, and performance while collaborating with DevOps, engineering, and infrastructure teams to support millions of users nationwide. Extensive PostgreSQL experience and cloud familiarity are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on PostgreSQL DBA in production
• Deep PostgreSQL internals knowledge (MVCC, WAL, vacuum)
• Experience with high-availability architectures (Patroni, repmgr) and DR across regions
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and automation skills
• Experience with cloud-hosted PostgreSQL (AWS RDS/Aurora) and security/compliance

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL clusters in prod/staging/dev
• Ensure high availability and DR with replication and backups
• Monitor performance and optimize queries, indexing, and configuration
• Plan upgrades and migrations with minimal downtime
• Implement security: RBAC, encryption, audit logging
• Automate DBA tasks with Bash/Python and IaC tools
• Collaborate on schema design and data modeling
• Participate in on-call rotation and root-cause analysis
• Evaluate extensions (PostGIS, pg_partman, Citus) as needed
• Capacity planning and storage management

Skills

DBA experience

PostgreSQL internals

Performance tuning

Automation scripting

Cloud AWS

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent

7+ years PostgreSQL DBA

Tools

PgBouncer

Pgpool-II

pgBackRest

Barman

Patroni

repmgr

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Vimo is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to design, implement, and optimize PostgreSQL environments powering a state-based SaaS platform.

You will ensure high availability, security, and performance while collaborating with DevOps, engineering, and infrastructure teams to support millions of users nationwide. Extensive PostgreSQL experience and cloud familiarity are required.