Staff Database Administrator
Core
Own the reliability, performance, and resilience of a multi-terabyte Aurora PostgreSQL estate serving hundreds of thousands of brokerage accounts and millions of daily trades.
Role type
Staff Database Administrator (Infrastructure & Platform)
Builds
Production clearing and brokerage platform data stores
Domain
Financial services / Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
PostgreSQL (query optimization, partitioning, replication), Aurora PostgreSQL, multi-region disaster recovery, change data capture (Debezium, Kafka, AWS DMS), Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, schema migration tools (Flyway/Liquibase), capacity modeling, observability
Preferred skills
AI/LLM automation for DB ops, sharding strategies, MySQL/Snowflake/Redis/OpenSearch operations, large-scale data migration, SOC 1/2 compliance, brokerage/custody platform knowledge
Technologies
Aurora PostgreSQL, Kafka, MSK, Debezium, AWS DMS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Flyway, Liquibase, pg_stat_statements
Responsibilities
Lead multi-region disaster recovery program and convert clusters to Aurora Global Database; Drive database segmentation to isolate critical domains; Architect for order-of-magnitude growth in transaction volume; Own major-version upgrade program with minimal downtime; Re-architect data movement layers for parallel throughput; Enforce schema-change governance and automated guardrails; Partner on security/compliance (encryption, row-level security); Act as senior escalation point for DB incidents; Build automation and mentor engineers on data modeling.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence