Database Administrator (DBA)

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Avtal

Database Administrator (DBA)

austin, TX
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Database Administrator (DBA) — Austin, TX

    About Avtal

    Avtal helps collection agencies connect with consumers in a more modern and friendly way - through white-labeled digital outreach that drives higher recovery rates and better experiences.

    We've raised $9M (most recently led by S3 Ventures) and were recognized as their fastest-growing portfolio company. Our platform is quickly becoming the industry standard for digital debt collection. We're scaling our team and looking for people who want to help modernize a critical part of the financial system.

    What You'll Do

    • Design, implement, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
    • Optimize schema design, queries, and indexing to support high-volume transactional workloads.
    • Develop and automate processes for backups, replication, and failover to ensure data integrity and uptime.
    • Collaborate with backend and ML teams on data model evolution and system performance.
    • Build and manage CI/CD database workflows using GitHub.
    • Monitor database health and performance, implementing proactive improvements and alerts.
    • Help triage and resolve production issues , working closely with product and engineering teams during incidents.
    • Create Ad-Hoc reports to support customer support and product organizations.
    • Participate in on-call rotations and support post-incident reviews.
    • Implement and enforce database security, access control, and compliance best practices.

    What We're Looking For

    • 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator or Database Engineer.
    • Deep hands-on experience with PostgreSQL administration, tuning, and high availability.
    • Strong SQL and scripting skills (bash, Python, or similar).
    • Familiarity with GitHub , Ansible , or other automation tools.
    • Experience with AWS RDS , EC2, or cloud-hosted PostgreSQL.
    • Knowledge of monitoring and observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
    • Strong debugging and production triage skills — able to quickly assess impact and drive toward resolution.
    • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities across technical teams.

    Bonus Points

    • Experience with Elasticsearch , NSQ , or message queue architectures.
    • Exposure to ML data pipelines and analytics workloads.
    • Prior experience in a high-growth startup or SaaS environment.