Staff PostgreSQL Architect (Aurora) - Multi-Region Hybrid

Altruist; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Office in Culver City/San Francisco

Career growth

Job summary

Altruist is hiring a Staff Database Administrator to own and scale a multi-terabyte Aurora PostgreSQL estate across critical workloads. You will lead multi-region disaster recovery, data movement, and domain-based segmentation, partnering with security, product, and engineering leadership.

The role offers autonomy and significant influence on data architecture. You will drive upgrades, governance, and performance with a focus on reliability and cost efficiency while mentoring engineers across

Qualifications

• 8+ years operating production relational databases at scale.
• Deep PostgreSQL expertise including partitioning and replication.
• Experience with multi-terabyte Aurora/RDS deployments.
• Proven multi-region disaster recovery design and rollback.
• Hands-on with Debezium, Kafka, AWS DMS for data movement.
• Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and schema migration tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own the production PostgreSQL estate end to end across clusters.
• Lead multi-region resilience and global database design.
• Segment databases into domain-owned clusters with dedicated read paths.
• Plan capacity, partitioning, and scaling for rising volumes.
• Manage upgrade programs with minimal downtime.
• Oversee data movement and replication tuning for correctness.

Skills

8+ years

PostgreSQL expertise

Multi-region DR

Data movement

Observability

Strong communication

Code as infrastructure

Leadership

Education

B.A./B.S. in CS

Tools

Aurora PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL Tools

Debezium

Kafka/KMS

AWS DMS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Flyway/Liquibase

Job description

Altruist is hiring a Staff Database Administrator to own and scale a multi-terabyte Aurora PostgreSQL estate across critical workloads. You will lead multi-region disaster recovery, data movement, and domain-based segmentation, partnering with security, product, and engineering leadership.

The role offers autonomy and significant influence on data architecture. You will drive upgrades, governance, and performance with a focus on reliability and cost efficiency while mentoring engineers across