Altruist

Altruist

Staff Database Administrator

San Francisco, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$203k-$275kDetected 43 days ago
PostgreSQLMySQLRedisElasticsearchSnowflakeAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDKafkaComplianceLoad TestingLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving

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Sponsors this role80
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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Level IV · 4×
Level I$78,1461 entry
Level II$106,2882 entries
Level III$134,4513 entries
Level IV$162,5944 entries

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About the role

  • Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase, and we are hiring a Staff Database Administrator to join our Cloud Infrastructure & Platform team.
  • Our clearing and brokerage platform runs on a multi-terabyte Aurora PostgreSQL estate that is the system of record for hundreds of thousands of brokerage accounts, millions of positions, and hundreds of thousands of trades every day.
  • You will be one of two staff-level database engineers, working directly with engineering leadership and partnering with platform, data, security, and product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own the production PostgreSQL estate end to end - multi-terabyte Aurora clusters across clearing, broker-dealer, and internal platform workloads - including capacity, performance, availability, and cost.
  • Lead multi-region resilience for data stores: convert production clusters to Aurora Global Database, instrument replication lag against tiered RTO and RPO commitments, and own documented failover, failback, and recurring recovery drills.
  • Drive database segmentation. Carve our most critical domains out of shared clusters into dedicated ones with their own read paths, so failover, upgrades, and blast radius are scoped per domain rather than per fleet.
  • Own the upgrade program. Plan and execute major-version upgrades across the fleet with minimal downtime, and keep engine versions current enough that they never gate replication or recovery capability.
  • Own change data capture and data movement - Debezium, Kafka/MSK, and AWS DMS - for throughput, lag, and correctness, including re-architecting single-threaded vendor replication paths into parallel, partitioned pipelines.
  • Partner with security and compliance on encryption, row-level security, least-privilege access, and the evidence our SOC 1 and regulatory obligations depend on.
  • Build automation and AI-assisted tooling that makes routine database work self-serve for product engineers, and mentor engineers across the org on data modeling, query design, and operating databases at scale.
  • The role carries a lot of autonomy for design and implementation, and real influence over where our data architecture goes next.
  • Drive database segmentation.
  • Carve our most critical domains out of shared clusters into dedicated ones with their own read paths, so failover, upgrades, and blast radius are scoped per domain rather than per fleet.

Requirements

  • 8+ years operating production relational databases at scale, ideally at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization handling regulated or transactional data.
  • Deep PostgreSQL expertise: query planning and optimization, indexing, partitioning, vacuum and bloat management, locking and concurrency, replication, and connection management.
  • Practical experience with change data capture and data movement - Debezium, Kafka, or AWS DMS - and with diagnosing replication lag and correctness issues.
  • Comfort working as code: Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and version-controlled schema migration tooling such as Flyway or Liquibase.
  • You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives.
  • You are instinctually creative in your approach to finding solutions to roadblocks.
  • Experience splitting a monolithic database into domain-owned clusters, or introducing sharding to a multi-tenant system already in production.
  • Experience supporting a large-scale data migration or platform integration, including historic data conversion into a canonical model.
  • Familiarity with SOC 1, SOC 2, or similar audited control environments.
  • Knowledge of brokerage, clearing, or custody platforms and the financial services industry.
  • Experience - 8+ years operating production relational databases at scale, ideally at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization handling regulated or transactional data.
  • Hands-on experience running Aurora or RDS at multi-terabyte scale, including major-version upgrades, blue/green cutovers, and parameter and storage tuning.
  • Proven multi-region disaster recovery design: defining and defending RTO and RPO targets, cross-region replication, promotion and failback mechanics, and validated backup and restore.
  • Strong observability instincts - you reach for pg_stat_statements, wait events, and dashboards before you reach for a guess.
  • Education - Ideally a B.A. / B.S. in a relevant field such as Computer Science or a related discipline, but experience and understanding matter just as much.
  • Staff-level scope - You set technical direction beyond your own work, lead multi-quarter programs across teams, and influence without needing authority to do it.
  • Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable.
  • Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others.
  • Resilience - We are inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way.
  • Assurance - Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives.

Compensation

  • San Francisco, CA salary range

Company info

  • We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all.
  • But first, our values Kindness - Kindness doesn't just equal niceness.
  • Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it's hard.
  • We are inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way.
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