Description
Remote Production DBA – Shape Resilient Data Systems from Anywhere
Introduction: Building the Backbone of Modern Digital Operations
When databases power mission-critical workflows and global teams depend on high availability, your expertise becomes the difference between confidence and chaos. As a Remote Production DBA, your mission is to enhance operational stability, integrate automation at every touchpoint, and ensure that data flows uninterrupted, regardless of user location or the occurrence of spikes. You’ll set new standards for reliability in cloud-first environments, using your intuition and skill to spot bottlenecks before they impact millions. If the thought of supporting always-on digital experiences excites you, this opportunity is designed to fuel your ambition.
Key Responsibilities: Make Every Query Count
- Architect robust, scalable database environments—balancing performance and failover to keep every transaction smooth.
- Proactively monitor, tune, and automate databases to reduce latency and amplify speed, keeping data-driven teams ahead of the curve.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and security to shape solutions trusted by users worldwide.
- Lead seamless migrations, upgrades, and patching cycles—guiding projects that empower entire departments to move faster, smarter, and safer.
- Develop and refine backup and recovery strategies so business continuity isn’t just a promise but a guarantee.
- Respond to incidents with calm expertise, unraveling root causes and sharing lessons learned to prevent recurrence.
- Mentor peers by simplifying complex performance concepts—whether sharing best practices over Zoom or writing documentation that stands the test of time.
- Champion automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or CI/CD pipelines to reduce toil and reclaim creative focus for the team.
Impact & Outcomes: Where Your Work Echoes
Every successful query, lightning-fast report, and seamless customer experience bears your fingerprint. By keeping database systems in peak condition, you enable marketing to launch campaigns overnight, engineers to deploy code safely, and leaders to make decisions with up-to-the-minute insight. Your attention to data integrity ensures that compliance isn’t just a checkbox but a lived reality—whether it’s GDPR, HIPAA, or SOC 2. When systems run smoother, the whole organization wins.
Required Skills & Experience: Bring Technical Depth and Creative Problem-Solving
- Deep hands-on expertise in managing production database platforms (such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or cloud-native DBaaS).
- Mastery of performance tuning, query optimization, and disaster recovery in high-throughput, distributed environments.
- Proficiency with remote collaboration tools—Notion, Jira, Slack, and cloud monitoring dashboards.
- You communicate technical topics with clarity—distilling troubleshooting steps for teammates and non-technical stakeholders alike.
- Prior success implementing infrastructure as code, monitoring, and automated alerting solutions.
- Experience supporting 24/7 production systems, with an ability to prioritize urgent issues without losing sight of long-term improvements.
Preferred Qualifications: Elevate the Bar
- An advanced degree—such as a bachelor’s or master’s—in computing, information sciences, or an equivalent technical discipline.
- Certifications in AWS, GCP, Azure, or database-specific credentials.
- Demonstrated impact in remote, globally distributed teams.
- Track record with automation scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) to reduce manual work and empower rapid change.
Work Environment: Thrive Remotely, Stay Deeply Connected
You’ll join a team where ownership isn’t just encouraged—it’s celebrated. Our distributed setup means you’ll solve problems from your own productive space using a powerful stack of cloud collaboration tools and real-time dashboards. We move quickly, but you’ll always have the time and trust to focus intensely and deliver your best. Your voice shapes decisions, and your curiosity sparks continuous improvement across the team.
Compensation & Benefits: Invested in Your Growth
This is a remote-first opportunity offering a highly competitive annual salary of $119,317. Your commitment is rewarded with flexible hours, ongoing education stipends, modern hardware, and a culture that genuinely values well-being. We believe empowered team members build empowered systems.
Why Join Now? The Future Needs Your Leadership
If you’re driven by the idea that your database expertise can be the engine behind world-class digital products, you’ll find a meaningful home here. The chance to architect the backbone of innovation—while working wherever you feel most inspired—awaits. Ready to make an impact from day one? Let’s build the next era of resilient data systems together.