Senior Database Engineer (DBA)

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable.
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Senior Software Engineer
Remote
501 - 1,000 Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS
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Description For Senior Database Engineer (DBA)

Motive is seeking a Senior Database Engineer (DBA) to ensure their databases are performant, reliable, scalable, and automated. The role involves overseeing more than 100 databases, primarily PostgreSQL, and working with AWS managed data layer services. Key responsibilities include designing high availability database architecture, partnering with developers and SREs, optimizing database performance, automating tasks, and managing security policies. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of PostgreSQL experience, strong AWS knowledge, and expertise in database architecture, query tuning, and monitoring tools. This role offers the opportunity to work with a diverse range of technologies and contribute to the success of a company serving over 120,000 customers across various industries.

Motive empowers physical operations with tools to enhance safety, productivity, and profitability. Their platform integrates safety, operations, and finance management for drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend. With industry-leading AI, Motive provides complete visibility and control while reducing manual workloads through automation and simplification.

Join a company that values diversity and inclusion, offering the chance to work on critical infrastructure supporting a wide range of industries including transportation, logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector. This remote position based in India allows you to contribute to a rapidly growing tech company while maintaining work-life balance.

Last updated 7 months ago

Responsibilities For Senior Database Engineer (DBA)

  • Design and implement high availability database architecture in AWS
  • Partner with developers and SREs to build and automate the provisioning of new infrastructure
  • Continuously monitor and improve database performance via proactive database maintenance, schema updates, table partitioning, etc.
  • Collaborate with developers to optimize database queries
  • Automate routine database administration and maintenance tasks ensuring the health of databases
  • Plan and execute disaster recovery scenarios
  • Build dashboards for database health and alerting
  • Perform Terraform deployments of database instances and clusters
  • Manage database upgrades and migrations with minimal to zero-downtime
  • Work with Data and ML teams on Kafka and Snowflake integrations and data flows from main DBs
  • Oversee database security policies implementation, including user and group permissions management, data security and retention
  • Take on-call duty to respond to production incidents

Requirements For Senior Database Engineer (DBA)

PostgreSQL
Kafka
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years of experience working with PostgreSQL
  • Experience building and maintaining mission-critical production PostgreSQL databases
  • Solid understanding of PostgreSQL database architecture (locking, consistency, transaction logging, etc)
  • AWS database services experience (RDS/Aurora, etc.)
  • Experience with high-availability, backup and recovery solutions and strategies
  • Advanced knowledge of query tuning and optimization techniques
  • Experience provisioning PostgreSQL databases in AWS with tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Datadog, New Relic, Sumo Logic
  • Experience with connection pooling tools (such as Pgbouncer, RDS Proxy)

Benefits For Senior Database Engineer (DBA)

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace

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