Senior Database Administrator
The Leaflet
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Florida • United States
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About the role
- Operate and evolve multi-region CockroachDB clusters and PostgreSQL instances across production, staging, and development environments
- Own query performance: identify regressions, tune execution plans, advise application teams on schema design and access patterns
- Manage database capacity planning, scaling events, and upgrade cycles with minimal customer impact
- Design and enforce standards for schema changes, migrations, and data lifecycle management
- Build and maintain database observability: dashboards, alerting, anomaly detection, and SLO tracking (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent)
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for data-layer issues
- Drive blameless postmortems and durable remediation
- Instrument databases and surrounding infrastructure to surface leading indicators of degradation before they become incidents
- Automate provisioning, configuration, backup, and recovery using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar)
- Build and maintain internal tooling for database management, monitoring, and self-service operations
- Collaborate with platform engineering on CI/CD pipelines, deployment safety, and change management for database-touching services
- Implement and audit access controls, authentication, authorization, and encryption at rest and in transit
- Support compliance requirements related to data protection, audit logging, and retention policies
- Use AI tools (LLMs, code assistants, natural-language query analysis) to accelerate troubleshooting, documentation, code generation, and operational runbooks
- Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted observability and anomaly detection tooling into database operations
- Contribute to internal knowledge sharing on effective use of AI in database engineering workflows
- Establish and maintain a Database Center of Excellence: documentation, standards, best practices, and reusable patterns
- Mentor engineers on database fundamentals, distributed systems behavior, and operational discipline.
Requirements
- 5+ years as a Database Administrator or comparable infrastructure role
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with CockroachDB in production
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consensus, distributed transactions, consistency models, failure modes
- Proficiency in SQL — not just querying, but schema design, indexing strategy, and execution plan analysis
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, or equivalent)
- Comfortable writing tools and automation in Python or a similar language
- Practical experience with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
- Demonstrated ability to use AI tools (LLMs, code assistants) productively in technical workflows
- Clear technical communication, written and verbal
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Flexible vacation allowance
- Flexible work from home or office hours
- Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand
- Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions as part of a passionate team
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
CockroachDBPostgreSQLSQLinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformAnsiblePythonmonitoring and observabilityPrometheusGrafana
Soft Skills
technical communicationmentoringcollaborationincident responsecapacity planningschema designtroubleshootingdocumentationremediationknowledge sharing