Hybrid Staff Database Administrator, DBA

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About the role

  • Staff Database Administrator managing PostgreSQL databases across global regions for legal AI platform. Driving technical strategy, migration governance, and ensuring database reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Own the migration governance framework end-to-end
  • Drive the technical strategy for Harvey’s global database fleet
  • Own database reliability and performance at the fleet level
  • Build self-service tooling and developer guardrails
  • Lead database incident response and drive systemic improvements

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in database administration, database reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering with PostgreSQL as your primary database, with demonstrated staff-level scope
  • Expert-level PostgreSQL knowledge (required)
  • Track record of building migration governance systems
  • Experience architecting database infrastructure for multi-region, high-availability environments
  • Deep fluency with database observability
  • Experience leading database major version upgrades or sharding initiatives in production with zero downtime
  • Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority
  • Proficiency with cloud database services at scale and infrastructure-as-code

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
  • Flexible PTO

Job title

Staff Database Administrator, DBA

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$190,720 - $286,080 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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