Database Administrator Senior - Postgres - MySQL

The Senior Database Administrator is responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and support of Experity’s cloud-native database platforms, focusing primarily on Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL running on AWS RDS.

This role plays a critical part in ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and security of mission-critical SaaS databases. The DBA partners closely with Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams to operate a highly observable, resilient, and cost-efficient data platform.

This role is expected to act as a technical leader in database reliability and performance, influencing architecture decisions, mentoring team members, and driving operational excellence across multiple database platforms., * Deploy, configure, and manage PostgreSQL and MySQL databases in AWS RDS and Aurora environments.

• Configure and manage MySQL parameter groups, option groups, automated backups, snapshots, and maintenance windows.
• Architect and support high availability solutions leveraging clusters, read replicas, Multi-AZ deployments, writer/reader endpoint strategies and read scaling.
• Monitor and mitigate replication lag across replicas to ensure read consistency and performance.
• Tune and manage database-specific parameters.
• Optimize workloads for Aurora storage architecture, including I/O patterns, autovacuum behavior, and checkpoint tuning.
• Optimize database indexing, query execution plans, and MySQL InnoDB configuration for production workloads
• Monitor and troubleshoot database performance using AWS CloudWatch, DataDog, and Database-native tools (e.g., pg_stat_statements, EXPLAIN).
• Analyze and optimize query performance, indexing strategies, and resource utilization.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues, including locking, blocking, replication lag, and connection saturation.
• Implement and manage backup and recovery strategies including point-in-time recovery (PITR), automated snapshots, and cross-region resilience.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve schema design, query patterns, and database access efficiency.
• Drive observability best practices, including alerting, logging, and performance metrics across database environments.
• Optimize cloud database cost and performance, including instance sizing, storage utilization, and workload tuning.
• Support and contribute to database migrations and modernization efforts.
• Automate database provisioning and operations using Infrastructure-as-Code and scripting.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement processes.
• Support MySQL version upgrades, patching, and database migrations with minimal downtime.
• Other duties as assigned.

Database Administration, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Database Administration, PostgreSQL, Cloud Computing, MySQL, Software as a Service (SaaS), High Availability, * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience., * Minimum 5 years of database administration experience, with 3+ years focused on PostgreSQL in high-volume OLTP production environments.

• 2+ years administering MySQL in production, preferably on AWS RDS.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS RDS MySQL.
• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals, including query planner, indexing, vacuuming, WAL, and replication.
• Strong understanding of MySQL architecture, including InnoDB storage engine, replication, indexing, and query optimization.
• Proven expertise in database performance tuning and troubleshooting in high-availability, high-throughput environments.
• Experience supporting systems with significant transaction volume (e.g., 100-200+ TPS) and scaling for continued growth.
• Experience troubleshooting contention scenarios, including locking, blocking, connection saturation, and long-running transactions.
• Experience with AWS services including RDS, Aurora, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and S3.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as DataDog and CloudWatch.
• Experience designing and supporting High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Strong understanding of relational database design and data modeling.
• Experience with automation (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and scripting (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Experience operating in a production SaaS or high-transaction environment.

Team Member Competencies:

• Demonstrates ownership and accountability for production systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and operations teams.
• Communicates clearly and effectively in both technical and non-technical contexts.
• Continuously seeks to improve processes, performance, and reliability.