Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator / Database Engineer
Chicagoonsitesenior$150K – $180K
via Greenhouse
About this role
Company: tastytrade Role: Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator / Database Engineer Location: Chicago, IL — Hybrid About the Role As a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator / Database Engineer, you'll own the health, performance, and durability of high-throughput Postgres clusters running both on bare metal / on-prem VMs and on Amazon RDS. This is a hands-on role: you will read query plans, tune indexes, run failover drills, review application code, and write high-quality documentation. This is not a ticket-queue DBA position. You will work inside the development process — reviewing migrations before they ship, pairing with application teams on data access patterns, assisting with performance troubleshooting, and contributing to incident resolution and process improvement.…
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