Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator / Database Engineer
tastylive · Chicago, Illinois
Posted 19 days ago · $150,000-$180,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 19 days tastylive's roles stay open a median of 24 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 94% of tastylive's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at tastylive
- moderate 3 stale, 1 reposted of 18 open
- Hiring momentum
- 30 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from tastylive's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for tastylive.
About this role
In this role as a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator / Database Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the health and performance of high-throughput PostgreSQL clusters, both on-premises and in Amazon RDS. Your daily tasks will include query plan analysis, index tuning, backup and recovery management, and collaborating with development teams on database migrations and performance issues. This position emphasizes hands-on involvement rather than traditional DBA ticketing, requiring strong communication and documentation skills.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of tastylive as an employer.
What you need
- Deep PostgreSQL expertise with query planner
- Hands-on indexing strategy experience
- Understanding of replication including physical and logical replication
- Production experience with Patroni-managed clusters
- Proven ownership of a backup and restore program
- Experience operating Postgres at scale in self-managed and RDS environments
Nice to have
- Experience with connection poolers (PgBouncer)
- Infrastructure-as-code and configuration management experience
- Kubernetes-hosted Postgres operators
- Active-active multi-site architecture experience
- Experience with logical replication-based zero-downtime migrations
What you get
- Performance Bonuses
- Stock Purchase Options
- Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits
- 401k Plan
- 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday)
- 10 Paid Sick Days
Worth weighing
- No salary listed in the posting, but a base salary range is provided
- The role requires a strong hands-on approach, which may not suit those preferring a traditional DBA role
- Emphasis on documentation and communication may require strong writing skills
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Listed by tastylive on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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