Senior Database Administrator

TL;DR

Senior Database Administrator: Building reliable, secure, and scalable data platforms in a modern cloud-first environment with an accent on owning the health, performance, and evolution of core relational databases. Focus on designing resilient architectures, optimizing workloads, and ensuring system reliability.

Location: This role will be based in either the New York City, Austin, King of Prussia, or Phoenix office, and will be part of hirify.global's hybrid in-office operation.

Salary: $135K - $150K base

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology company redefining how people save for critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare, serving over 350,000 businesses and nearly 1.5 Million active savers across the United States.

What you will do

• Own the uptime, performance, and operational health of production databases (primarily PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS).
• Design and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies, including replication, backups, and point-in-time recovery (PITR).
• Analyze and tune slow queries, indexes, and execution plans for high-throughput workloads.
• Design and evolve database schemas and data models to support new products and high-growth data volumes.
• Implement and maintain strong database security controls, including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
• Automate routine DBA tasks using scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Database Administrator with significant ownership of production relational databases.
• Deep expertise in at least one major RDBMS, preferably PostgreSQL (configuration, performance tuning, query optimization, replication, backup/restore).
• Hands-on experience in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS RDS/Aurora, GCP Cloud SQL, Azure Database).
• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with procedural languages such as PL/pgSQL.
• Demonstrated experience with designing and operating HA/DR solutions and managing backup and recovery strategies.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools for databases (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus).
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and scripting in languages such as Python or Bash.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineers, security, and operations teams, communicating complex technical concepts clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience operating PostgreSQL at scale in a high-traffic, regulated, or mission-critical environment (e.g., fintech, banking).
• Exposure to data warehousing and analytics ecosystems (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift).
• Familiarity with NoSQL or specialized data stores (e.g., Redis, DynamoDB).
• Background with CI/CD pipelines for database changes.
• Prior experience in a startup or high-growth environment where you have helped scale systems and processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive health coverage and generous vacation offering.
• Hybrid office policy with options in Midtown Manhattan, Austin, King of Prussia, and Phoenix offices.
• Dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee.
• Great 401(k) plan.

Hiring process

• Initial 1-2 conversations to get to know team members, experience, and interests.
• Skill or experience screen (e.g., a coding interview).
• Virtual or in-person interview panel.
• References check stage with a current or former supervisor and peer before an offer.