Senior Database Administrator
Listed on 2026-02-08
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing, Systems Engineer, Data Engineer, Database Administrator
Overview
Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 350,000 businesses and nearly 1.5 Million active savers, with over $30 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States. Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities.
Vestwell s platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third-party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers. To learn more, visit
Vestwell is expanding and we’re excited about adding a Senior Database Administrator who is passionate about building reliable, secure, and scalable data platforms in a modern cloud-first environment. At a high level, we’re looking for a senior technical contributor who can own the health, performance, and evolution of our core relational databases that power our retirement and savings platforms. You are comfortable operating in production, making decisions under ambiguity, and partnering with Engineering, Dev Ops, Security, and Product teams.
You bring deep expertise in Postgre
SQL or another major relational database, understand how to build resilient architectures in the cloud, and are proactive about automation, observability, and best practices. Most of all, you care about doing things the right way: treating data as a product, designing for scale, and building systems that are easy to operate and evolve.
As a Senior Database Administrator, you will serve as the primary owner for our production database environments, responsible for availability, performance, reliability, and security. You will design and implement database architectures, tune workloads, guide schema and query design, and partner with engineering teams to ship features safely and efficiently.
Your Responsibilities Will Include, But Are Not Limited To- Own the uptime, performance, and operational health of production databases (primarily Postgre
SQL or similar RDBMS). - Design and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies, including replication, backups, and point-in-time recovery (PITR).
- Participate in and help mature our incident management, on-call, and post-incident review practices.
- Analyze and tune slow queries, indexes, and execution plans to support low-latency, high-throughput workloads.
- Proactively monitor and optimize database configuration, connection management, and resource utilization.
- Partner with engineering teams on schema design, query patterns, and migration strategies to ensure long-term scalability.
- Design and evolve database schemas, data models, and partitioning strategies to support new products and high-growth data volumes.
- Plan and execute major upgrades, migrations, and refactors with minimal impact to customers and internal stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Dev Ops and platform teams on infrastructure choices (e.g., managed cloud databases, storage, networking) and capacity planning.
- Implement and maintain strong database security controls, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and auditing.
- Work closely with Security, Compliance, and Risk teams to align database practices with regulatory and internal standards.
- Define and enforce guardrails for access patterns, data handling, and least-privilege principles across teams.
- Automate routine DBA tasks (provisioning, backups, failover, schema migrations, user management, guardrails) using scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Define and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging standards for database systems, including SLOs and capacity thresholds.
- Contribute to internal tooling, runbooks, and documentation to improve operational efficiency and reduce toil.
- Partner with application engineers, data engineers, and Dev Ops to design end-to-end solutions that balance performance, reliability, and developer ergonomics.
- Provide guidance and best practices for SQL, data modeling, and database usage to engineering teams.
- Mentor other engineers in database fundamentals, operational excellence, and production readiness.
The Necessities:
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Database Administrator or in a closely related role, with significant ownership of production relational databases.
- Deep expertise in at least one major RDBMS, preferably Postgre
SQL (e.g., configuration, performance tuning, query optimization, replication, and…
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