
Staff Database Administrator, DBA
Harvey
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $190,720 - $286,080 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own the migration governance framework end-to-end
- Drive the technical strategy for Harvey’s global database fleet
- Own database reliability and performance at the fleet level
- Build self-service tooling and developer guardrails
- Lead database incident response and drive systemic improvements
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in database administration, database reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering with PostgreSQL as your primary database, with demonstrated staff-level scope
- Expert-level PostgreSQL knowledge (required)
- Track record of building migration governance systems
- Experience architecting database infrastructure for multi-region, high-availability environments
- Deep fluency with database observability
- Experience leading database major version upgrades or sharding initiatives in production with zero downtime
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority
- Proficiency with cloud database services at scale and infrastructure-as-code
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
- Flexible PTO
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PostgreSQLdatabase administrationdatabase reliability engineeringinfrastructure engineeringmigration governancedatabase infrastructure architecturedatabase observabilitydatabase major version upgradesshardinginfrastructure-as-code
Soft Skills
influence technical directionleadershipproblem-solvingcommunication