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# Database Administrator

- **Company:** Adaptive Protocols, Inc.
- **Location:** Kirkland, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $110,000.0 - $120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Bash Shell, Cloud Database, Code Review, Databases, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Development, Database Schema, Elasticsearch, Failover, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Query Optimization, DataOps, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Transact-SQL, Enterprise Data Management, Scripting, Freeform SQL, Enterprise Software Applications, Data Ingestion, Software Troubleshooting, Database Performance, Indexer, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Database Capacity Planning, Database Replication
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://adaptiva.com/jobs/senior-database-administrator

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical
discipline.

 * Expertise in PostgreSQL, experience in MSSQL is a plus.
 * Expertise in complex SQL development, schema design, indexing, and query optimization
 * Experience with managing Postgres replication
 * Experience diagnosing and improving performance in large-scale or high-growth systems
 * Hands-on experience of DB performance improvement techniques including indexing, partitioning,
database schema improving, scaling and SQL query optimization (not limited)

 * Deep expertise of functional SQL development including PL/pgSQL and T-SQL along with scripting languages like Bash for automation and configuration
 * Strong knowledge of database schema design (ERD) and data modeling techniques (DW)
 * Basic knowledge of data ingestion (Scalability and reliability), transformation and loading
techniques (ETL/ELT, incremental loading, etc.)

Preferred Skills

 * Familiarity with CloudNativePostgres Kubernetes operator
 * Familiarity with log aggregation tools such as Elasticsearch and Loki
 * Familiarity with gitOps and Infrastructure as Code principles
 * Ability to track and tune databases within a Kubernetes cluster, which may include hundreds to thousands of replicas and primary nodes
 * Experience with manage and troubleshoot Postgres clusters including failover and data replication
 * Some experience managing a database cluster hosted in a cloud SaaS environment

## Description

Adaptiva is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Database Administrator to join our growing
engineering organization. Based in our Kirkland, Washington office, this full-time role offers the
opportunity to lead the design, development, and optimization of mission-critical database solutions
powering innovative enterprise products used by global organizations.

As a senior member of the development team, you will play a key role in optimizing performance for
large-scale applications. Additionally, you will serve as the primary point of contact in supporting
enterprise database systems across development, staging, and production environments. This role
ensures database availability, reliability, scalability, security, and performance while supporting
application development and business-critical data operations. This is an exciting opportunity for
someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges and influencing the technical direction of critical
database operations.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will:

Operations

 * Monitor database health, availability, resource utilization, and operational performance
 * Manage database capacity planning and infrastructure requirements
 * Troubleshooting and Optimization
 * Analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize complex SQL queries to improve database performance and system scalability
 * Demonstrate expertise of a pure DBA including strong troubleshooting and maintaining on-prem (PostgreSQL and SQL Server) and cloud databases
 * Database Design and Development support experience

All other basic DBA duty experiences: Database (PG and SQL Server) Installation, configuration and upgrades

 * Backup, migration and recovery plan and implementation
 * Routine code review to identify areas of SQL pertaining to security and vulnerabilities

Collaboration

 * Collaborate closely with QA, customer support, and cross-functional teams to identify root cause for all reported bugs
 * Work with customers directly on/off call to find the bottleneck of DB issues and pain points and resolve it