Harvey

Staff Database Administrator, DBA

Harvey

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $190,720 - $286,080 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

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