Senior Database Administrator

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📀 Database Administrator

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PDQ

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Manufacturing • Logistics

PDQ is a company that provides IT management tools designed to simplify and streamline device management for sysadmins. Their product suite includes PDQ Connect, PDQ Deploy, PDQ Inventory, PDQ Detect, SimpleMDM, and SmartDeploy. These tools cover a range of IT tasks from desktop and patch management to software inventory and remote device management. PDQ's solutions are designed to be scalable for various sectors, including education, finance, manufacturing, nonprofit, and government. They focus on automating deployments, ensuring device security through vulnerability scanning, and enhancing efficiency for IT professionals.

📋 Description

• Design and implement database architecture solutions that scale with PDQ’s growing SaaS platform • Lead database performance tuning, optimization and troubleshooting initiatives • Investigate and resolve complex production database performance and availability issues, identify root causes, mitigate incidents and drive long-term improvements • Collaborate with software development teams to optimize database queries and schema designs • Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate routine database administration tasks and maintenance procedures • Extend and maintain database observability tools to monitor performance and capacity, analyze historical data, identify trends and proactively address issues • Implement and maintain database security measures and access controls • Mentor and teach engineering teams to write optimized and performant database queries

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience managing databases at scale • Experience working in a SaaS environment with high-availability requirements • Strong grasp of OLTP databases, specifically PostgreSQL in high-volume environments • Experience with database replication, partitioning, sharding and clustering • Proficiency in SQL performance tuning, query optimization and schema design • Experience with automation tools and scripting languages (Bash, Python, or similar) • Knowledge of backup and recovery tools and methodologies • Experience with cloud platforms, specifically GCP and Cloud SQL • Knowledge of containerization and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes • Experience with monitoring tools, including Prometheus, Grafana and GCP SQL Query Insights • Experience troubleshooting PostgreSQL WAL and VACUUM behavior • Experience with OLAP columnar databases, including ClickHouse • Detail-oriented, organized and a good team player • Independent, highly motivated and solution-driven mentality • Excellent interpersonal skillset, particularly the ability to build authentic business relationships • Must be eligible to work in the United States; the majority of PDQ’s full-time roles do not qualify for employment visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• 4-Day Work Week • Equity Participation • Managers who champion professional development • 100% Premium Coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents • 100% Premium Coverage for Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance • Company Match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals • Flexible Paid Time Off Policy • Health Savings Account (HSA) and wellness incentives • Quarterly Company Values Award (team member nominated)