Senior PostgreSQL DBA — Scale & Secure Public-Sector SaaS

Vimo-Inc

Mountain View (CA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Vimo is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to design, implement, and optimize our mission-critical PostgreSQL environments powering our SaaS platform. You will work with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to ensure high availability, security, and scale for millions of users across state health programs.

The role requires deep PostgreSQL expertise, experience with cloud-hosted services, and automation skills.

Qualifications

7+ years of hands-on experience as a PostgreSQL DBA in production environments.
Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals including MVCC, WAL, vacuum, replication, and connection pooling.
Experience with backup and recovery tools: pg_dump, pg_basebackup, pgBackRest, Barman.
Experience with high-availability architectures: Patroni, repmgr.
Scripting in Bash or Python for automation; IaC with Terraform or Ansible.
Experience with cloud-hosted PostgreSQL (AWS RDS/Aurora, Cloud SQL, or Azure).
Understanding of security, compliance (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2).

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL clusters in production, staging, and development.
Ensure high availability and disaster recovery through replication and backups.
Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, implement query optimization and indexing.
Plan and execute upgrades, migrations with minimal downtime.
Enforce database security practices including RBAC, encryption, and audit logging.
Automate routine tasks with scripting and IaC; collaborate on schema design.
Manage PostgreSQL in cloud environments; maintain standards and runbooks.
Participate in on-call rotation and root-cause analysis for outages.
Evaluate extensions like PostGIS, pg_partman, Citus, pgvector as needed.