Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator

Postgres
UNITED STATES
October 17, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Vimo
Location: Mountain View, CA
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

Vimo is a national leader in state-based health insurance exchanges and safety-net transformations, partnering with state agencies to modernize the delivery of essential human services. We are seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, management, and optimization of enterprise PostgreSQL database environments powering Vimo’s mission-critical SaaS platform.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL database clusters across production, staging, and development environments.
  • Ensure high availability and disaster recovery through streaming/logical replication, failover mechanisms, and backup/restore procedures.
  • Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and execute query optimization, indexing strategies, and engine configuration tuning.
  • Plan and execute database upgrades, migrations, and major version transitions with minimal downtime.
  • Enforce database security best practices, including role-based access control, encryption at rest and in transit, and audit logging.
  • Automate routine DBA tasks (backups, monitoring, alerting, provisioning) using Bash, Python, and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform).
  • Collaborate with application development teams on schema design, data modeling, and query performance reviews.
  • Manage cloud-hosted PostgreSQL instances on AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL.
  • Establish database operational standards, documentation, and runbooks while participating in production on-call rotations.
  • Perform capacity planning and storage management to support scaling platform requirements.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience as a PostgreSQL DBA in production environments.
  • Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals including MVCC, WAL, vacuuming, replication, and connection pooling (PgBouncer, Pgpool-II).
  • Strong experience with performance tuning, query optimization, and EXPLAIN/ANALYZE interpretation.
  • Proficiency with backup and recovery tools including pg_dump, pg_basebackup, pgBackRest, and Barman.
  • Experience with high-availability architectures (Patroni, repmgr) and multi-region disaster recovery on AWS.
  • Solid Linux/Unix administration skills and automation scripting proficiency in Bash or Python.
  • Practical experience with cloud-hosted PostgreSQL (AWS RDS/Aurora).
  • Strong understanding of database security, compliance, and access governance.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications

  • Experience supporting databases in regulated industries (healthcare, government, or financial services).
  • Familiarity with HIPAA, FedRAMP, or SOC 2 compliance requirements.
  • Experience with database CI/CD pipelines and schema migration tools (Flyway, Liquibase, Alembic).
  • Knowledge of containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes) for PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, pganalyze).
  • PostgreSQL certification or contributions to the open-source PostgreSQL community.
  • Familiarity with other database engines (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).

Benefits & Perks

  • Comprehensive health, dental, life, disability, and vision insurance.
  • Health care spending or reimbursement accounts (FSA).
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Generous paid time off.
  • Education assistance and tuition reimbursement.
  • Commuting/travel assistance and gym membership discounts.

This role may involve access to sensitive or regulated information. Compliance with security, privacy, and data protection policies is required. Learn more at vimo.com.

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