Staff Database Administrator
Why Join Lytx
At Lytx, you'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the Database Infrastructure and Solutions to help support the scalability of our global IoT platform. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive innovation, and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our infrastructure practices.
The Staff Database Administrator is a senior individual contributor responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of cloud database services that are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. This role provides technical leadership across Amazon RDS (Postgres, MySQL, Aurora), MongoDB Atlas, and Microsoft SQL Server, enabling SaaS applications and cloud operations to run reliably at scale. The engineer plays a key role in incident management, participates in on-call rotations, and partners with a 24x7x365 Managed Service Provider (MSP) to maintain production stability.
Key Responsibilities
Own day-to-day operations and advanced administration of AWS RDS (Postgres, MySQL, Aurora), MongoDB Atlas, and Microsoft SQL Server, including configuration, patching, scaling, and troubleshooting.
Implement and refine database standards, automation, and operational runbooks to ensure availability, performance, security, and compliance across all environments.
Collaborate with application and platform engineering teams on schema design, indexing strategies, query tuning, and data lifecycle management to optimize workload performance and cost.
Design, build, and maintain automation for provisioning, patching, backups, cloning, and monitoring using tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and native AWS services like CloudWatch and Systems Manager.
Implement and enhance observability for databases, including metrics, logs, traces, alert thresholds, and performance dashboards to enable proactive detection and rapid diagnosis of issues.
Design and validate high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies across regions and accounts, including regular testing and documentation of recovery procedures
Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation for production database incidents, leading technical response for Sev1/Sev2 events and driving toward rapid containment and resolution
Mentor other Database Administrators and platform engineers through design reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing, helping elevate overall team capability while remaining as an individual contributor.
Own and standardize database schema change management across the organization using tools such as Liquibase, ensuring all changes are version-controlled, peer-reviewed, auditable, and safely deployable.
Required Qualifications
Minimum 9 years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator.
Extensive hands-on experience operating production workloads on Amazon RDS (Postgres, MySQL, Aurora), MongoDB Atlas, and Microsoft SQL Server in a SaaS or large-scale cloud environment.
Proven expertise in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, and troubleshooting complex database issues under time pressure.
Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and automation using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash).
Demonstrated experience in 24x7 operations, on-call support, and incident management, including working with or within MSP models.
Solid understanding of HA/DR patterns, replication, backup and restore strategies, and security best practices for cloud databases.
Hands-on experience implementing database schema change management tools (Liquibase or equivalent) in CI/CD pipelines.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Telehealth
- 401(k) and 401(k) match
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- FTO or PTO
- Employee Well-Being program
- 11 paid holidays plus 1 inclusive holiday per year
- Volunteer Time Off
- Employee Referral program
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Employee Recognition and Appreciation program
- Additional perk and voluntary benefit programs
Salary is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is also eligible for an incentive compensation plan. The expected hiring salary for this position is:
$162,250.00 - $204,750.00Innovation Lives Here
You go all in no matter what you do, and so do we. At Lytx, we’re powered by cutting-edge technology and Happy People. You want your work to make a positive impact in the world, and that’s what we do. Join our diverse team of hungry, humble and capable people united to make a difference.
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Lytx, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender, genetic information, uniformed service, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, or any other status protected by federal or state law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [email protected]. Lytx conducts background checks on applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment in accordance with applicable local, state, federal and regional laws. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment and will be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, federal and regional laws.
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