Staff Database Administrator (dba)

Harvey

San Francisco, United States
$190,720 - $286,080; not specified; not specified ...
Remote
Expert-level postgresql knowledge
Migration governance framework design
Multi-region database architecture
You will define how our database infrastructure operates and evolves across our legal AI platform, owning the technical strategy for a global fleet of PostgreSQL databases

Job Summary

  • You will define how our database infrastructure operates and evolves across our legal AI platform, owning the technical strategy for a global fleet of PostgreSQL databases.
  • This is a leadership role with deep hands-on expectations, where you will partner directly with Principal and Staff Engineers on infrastructure roadmap decisions while also being the person who can diagnose a replication lag spike at 2am.
  • We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees, with a compensation range of $190,720 - $286,080.

Matching Summary

You will define how our database infrastructure operates and evolves across our legal AI platform, owning the technical strategy for a global fleet of PostgreSQL databases.

Salary

$190,720 - $286,080; Not specified; Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Expert-level PostgreSQL knowledge
  • Migration governance framework design
  • Multi-region database architecture
  • Database observability strategies
  • PostgreSQL major version upgrades
  • Cloud database services at scale

Nice-to-have

  • Shaping database engineering function
  • Building database teams from scratch
  • Vector databases and AI/ML workloads
  • Strong software engineering skills
  • Representing database engineering in strategy

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years of database administration experience
  • Demonstrated staff-level scope
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code
  • Clear communication across audiences

Work Rights

Not specified

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