Remote PostgreSQL DBA: Shape Reliable Data, From Anywhere

Redefine How Global Teams Trust Their Data

What does it mean to be the heartbeat of every decision? As a Remote PostgreSQL DBA, you’ll empower teams to build confidently on a database infrastructure that works—every minute, for every customer, at any scale. Imagine waking up knowing your subsequent creative optimization will ripple through thousands of user journeys, fueling bold growth and turning system challenges into opportunities for more innovative engineering. If you thrive where precision meets possibility and want your technical rigor to fuel actual business impact, you’ll feel right at home here.

What Makes This Role Unique

Picture yourself fine-tuning PostgreSQL clusters, not just to keep things running but to make teams faster, releases safer, and customer data bulletproof. You’ll join hands with engineers, architects, and product thinkers to shape solutions where reliability is non-negotiable, automation is a daily mindset, and proactive monitoring keeps us ahead of the curve. Our database backbone drives fintech innovation, healthcare compliance, and scalable e-commerce—all from the comfort of your favorite workspace.

Your Impact: Building a Future-Proof Database Foundation

• Architect, tune, and support PostgreSQL databases that underpin products trusted by thousands globally.
• Partner with engineering to shape onboarding workflows that reduce friction and let developers move from idea to live deployment without a hitch.
• Bring clarity to migration strategies, guiding complex upgrades and data transformations with confidence and foresight.
• Identify scaling bottlenecks before they arise—our query optimization and index strategies ensure we stay lean as we grow.
• Lead backup and disaster recovery plans so every team can sleep easier, knowing data can be restored in minutes, not hours.
• Foster an engineering culture where documentation is clear, onboarding is smooth, and every handoff builds trust.
• Guide the adoption of cloud-native tools and automated provisioning for seamless development pipelines.

How You’ll Work: Human-Centric, Global, Results-Driven

You’ll shape our database future in an environment that moves quickly—without sacrificing deep work or thoughtful decisions. Mornings might start with a virtual huddle to review last night’s anomaly alerts. By afternoon, you could be collaborating via Slack to help roll out new schema changes or troubleshoot a data replication hiccup. Your expertise spans multiple time zones, connecting product teams in New York with data analysts in Berlin and DevOps engineers in Bangalore.

You simplify complex concepts—whether on Zoom with fellow DBAs or in Slack threads with front-end teams. Documentation isn’t a chore; it’s a promise of clarity for every handoff, every sprint. Your advice carries weight: it guides decisions that impact privacy compliance, financial transactions, and product launches viewed by thousands.

The Tech: Tools & Approaches That Set Us Apart

• PostgreSQL, in all its flavors—from on-prem to managed cloud (AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL)
• Advanced monitoring (pgBadger, Datadog, custom Prometheus setups)
• CI/CD-driven schema migration pipelines (Liquibase, Flyway)
• Infrastructure-as-Code for repeatable, scalable environments (Terraform, Ansible)
• Scripting with Python, Bash, or Go to automate the boring—and the essential
• Security best practices are woven into every patch, every audit, every backup

Who Thrives Here: Mindsets & Skills

• Curiosity for “what if?”—you don’t wait for an outage to fix a risk
• Strong hands-on experience with performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery in PostgreSQL
• You partner across functions: design, engineering, analytics, and support, all to create unified, reliable solutions
• Proven ability to plan and execute database upgrades and migrations with minimal downtime
• You love explaining database quirks in simple terms, ensuring everyone can make good decisions
• Passion for scripting, automation, and repeatability—you’re the reason engineers say, “I never worry about the data.”
• Familiarity with cloud architectures and continuous integration workflows
• Analytical thinking that turns monitoring signals into actionable improvements

What Success Looks Like

A month from now, you’ve helped the team ship a feature to 30,000+ users—with zero database issues and smooth rollbacks. Six months in, our query latency is down 40%, and disaster recovery is no longer a worry but a solved problem. Over the long haul, your fingerprints are on every big release and every quiet upgrade that makes our platform safer, faster, and more reliable for users worldwide.

Why This Remote PostgreSQL DBA Role?

Here, you’ll never feel like just a gatekeeper. Your insights drive business velocity. Your best practices empower junior engineers to grow and develop their skills. You’ll have the space to focus intensely, the freedom to automate away manual toil, and the opportunity to influence database strategy across products and teams. The salary for this role is $120,000 annually—and every day, you’ll know your impact stretches far beyond the database logs.

Ready to Architect the Future of Data Reliability?

If you get satisfaction from knowing the systems you manage, enabling people to work smarter, dream bigger, and build products users love, we’re excited to meet you. Let’s create a database backbone that empowers the next wave of global innovation.