Staff Database Administrator

The Role

We're looking for a Staff Database Administrator (DBA) to define the strategy and technical direction for the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of Apptegy's database infrastructure. As a senior technical leader within our Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team, you'll own database direction across our domain, set the standards other engineers build on, and represent the DBA team on our Architecture Review Board (ARB) as we continue to scale.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a cloud-first environment, enjoys solving complex, cross-team performance and availability challenges with a high degree of autonomy, and is passionate about building resilient systems that support mission-critical applications. You'll partner closely with Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Product teams—aligning them on the shared responsibility model—to ensure our data platforms remain secure, performant, and highly available, while enabling engineering pods to safely operate their own databases through our internal developer platform.

Beyond our transactional databases, you'll set direction for and optimize our Snowflake data warehouse, which powers analytics and reporting across the company—balancing performance, cost, and data governance as our data volumes grow.

What You'll Do

• 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