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Apptegy

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

💰 $13.2M Venture Round - Apptegy on 2019-03

Education • SaaS

Apptegy is an all-in-one communications platform for K–12 school districts that centralizes and streamlines district and school communications. The platform provides a content management system and drag-and-drop website builder, district-branded mobile apps, mass notifications and alerts, secure two-way messaging, automated translation, newsletters and social publishing, ADA compliance tools, and hands-on client support and training. Apptegy emphasizes brand consistency, community engagement, and thought leadership (SchoolCEO content) to help districts build trust and connect with families; the company states over 5,273 districts use its platform.

📋 Description

• Own the strategy and technical direction for Apptegy's production databases hosted in AWS, including PostgreSQL, and other relational database systems. • Own the database layer of Apptegy's self-service internal developer platform, defining the guardrails that let engineering pods provision, monitor, and operate their own databases safely. • Define and drive our high-availability, disaster recovery, and corruption-recovery programs, including DR and point-in-time-recovery drill cadence and RTO/RPO targets. • Set performance strategy across the domain and coach engineers on advanced query tuning, transaction isolation, and execution plan analysis. • Own schema and migration governance across teams, advising on data models, database migrations, and application data access strategies to ensure long-term performance and reliability. • Develop and automate operational processes for provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery. • Lead cross-team initiatives in data security, governance, compliance, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), defining guardrails such as policy-as-code, retention policies, budget controls, and non-prod data masking. • Set clear success metrics and hold the team and partner pods accountable to them. • Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements for significant database events. • Represent the DBA team on the Architecture Review Board (ARB), driving well-architected designs across multiple teams and contributing to Apptegy's database engineering standards and best practices. • Mentor DBAs and senior engineers, develop their technical judgment, and influence hiring decisions. • Evaluate datastore and buy-versus-build tradeoffs and lead major migration, modernization, and long-term scalability initiatives. • Administer, set direction for, and optimize our Snowflake data warehouse, including virtual warehouse sizing, resource monitors, role-based access control, and query and cost performance tuning. • Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and best practices that scale across the organization.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience administering production database environments, including setting technical direction across teams. • 5+ years of experience managing databases in AWS. • Deep expertise in PostgreSQL administration, tuning, and optimization, recognized as a go-to technical authority. • Experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, and other AWS database services. • Hands-on experience administering and setting strategy for a cloud data warehouse, ideally Snowflake. • Deep understanding of database performance tuning, replication, backup and recovery, and high-availability architectures. • A proven track record defining and running disaster recovery and business continuity programs. • Strong knowledge of Linux systems administration. • Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages. • Experience supporting databases that power modern SaaS applications at scale. • Understanding of application-layer database interactions, including ORM-generated SQL and query optimization principles. • Ability to design and build internal tooling and automation that leverages AI/LLMs—such as self-service database assistants, query-optimization helpers, or runbook automation—and to define quality gates for AI-generated database changes. • Experience defining standards, guardrails, or policy-as-code that other engineers adopt. • Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction and hiring. • Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and alerting tools. • Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose issues across application, infrastructure, and database layers. • Excellent communication skills and the ability to align and influence stakeholders across distributed teams. • Professional proficiency in English.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage • Retirement 401(k) with employer match • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) • Mental Health Reimbursement • Unlimited paid time off, including seasonal (December) company-wide time off • Paid parental and medical leave • Private medical insurance for you and your dependents • Life insurance • 15 days Aguinaldo • Vales de Despensa • Fondo de Ahorro • Caja de Ahorro • Flexible paid time off policy • Paid travel to/from Little Rock, Arkansas for Onboarding.