Database Administrator (DBA)

MySQL, Oracle + Postgres
UNITED STATES
September 19, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: HRCap, Inc.
Location: United States
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Permanent
Pay / Compensation: $115,000 – $150,000

About the Role

Our client is an established, high-growth technology enterprise delivering data-intensive enterprise SaaS infrastructure to millions of global users. We are seeking a meticulous, highly technical Database Administrator (DBA) to serve as the ultimate guardian of our data tier. In this role, you will be entirely responsible for the design, implementation, performance, and security of our relational and non-relational database environments. You will ensure maximum uptime, engineer robust backup and recovery strategies, and optimize complex queries to support our rapidly scaling application ecosystem.

Why Join Us

  • Critical Architectural Ownership: Take full operational ownership of a massive database environment, serving as the subject matter expert on all things data storage, indexing, and recovery.
  • Modern Multi-Database Stack: Work in a progressive data environment that bridges traditional relational databases (PostgreSQL/SQL Server) with high-throughput NoSQL structures and cloud-native data warehouses.
  • High-Visibility Performance Engineering: Your optimizations will directly impact platform speed and efficiency, making your contributions highly visible to engineering leadership.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Database Optimization & Tuning: Proactively monitor, diagnose, and resolve database performance bottlenecks. Optimize complex SQL queries, tune indexing strategies, and adjust configuration parameters to ensure sub-millisecond execution times.
  • High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Design, implement, and test rigorous backup, failover, and disaster recovery strategies (including replication and clustering) to guarantee 99.99% data availability and zero data loss.
  • Capacity Planning & Scaling: Monitor database growth patterns, forecast future storage and compute requirements, and execute database partitioning, sharding, or cloud-migration strategies as data scales.
  • Security & Access Control: Establish and enforce strict database security protocols, including data encryption at rest and in transit, managing user permissions/roles, and performing regular security compliance audits.
  • Schema Management & Developer Support: Collaborate closely with backend engineers and data architects to review, optimize, and deploy database schema changes, ensuring data integrity and migration safety.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Education & Domain Literacy: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a heavily quantitative field.
  • Professional Experience: 3 to 5+ years of proven hands-on experience managing production-scale databases in a high-volume, 24/7 commercial environment.
  • Database Platform Mastery: Deep technical expertise in managing and administering at least one major relational database management system (RDBMS) such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle.
  • Expert-Level SQL & Scripting: Exceptional command of SQL and procedural extensions (PL/pgSQL, T-SQL, or PL/SQL), paired with scripting capabilities (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) to automate routine maintenance and monitoring tasks.
  • Cloud Infrastructure Familiarity: Hands-on experience administering cloud-managed database services (such as AWS RDS, Aurora, or Azure SQL) and understanding cloud network topologies.
  • Methodical Problem-Solving: A disciplined, high-stakes mindset with the ability to remain calm and analytical during critical database outages or data recovery operations.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Industry certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Database, Oracle Certified Professional, or Microsoft Azure Database Administrator) are highly desirable.
  • Practical exposure to NoSQL environments (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra) is a massive plus.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive base structure ($115,000 – $150,000)
  • Performance Bonus
  • Equity Shares
  • Premium Corporate Health Benefits

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