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We equip retail, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and consumer goods brands with pioneering best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products. Our technology powers brands to streamline processes, drive efficiency and operate with confidence in an ever-changing market.\nOur story is one of rapid growth, bold ideas and extraordinary opportunities. We’re here to challenge the status quo-and we’re looking for brilliant people who want to do the same. No matter where you are in the world, this is your chance to be part of something exceptional.\nPosition Summary\nWe are seeking a PostgreSQL expert to join our R&D Customer Support team as a Production DBA. This role is focused on bringing deep Postgres expertise in-house to analyze, troubleshoot, and improve production database environments, perform root cause analysis on issues ranging from long-running queries to hosting environment problems and heavy traffic scenarios, and ensure our customers’ PostgreSQL deployments remain healthy, performant, and reliable. While the primary focus is production operations, the DBA will also work across development environments as needed to trace issues to their source and collaborate with engineering on fixes.\nPosition Details\nJob title: PostgreSQL Database Administrator (Production DBA)\nTeam: R&D - Customer Support\nLocation: Remote (US/Canada)\nEmployment Type: Full-time\nCompensation: $136K USD\nKey Responsibilities\nServe as the PostgreSQL expert and primary Production DBA within the R&D Customer Support team, driving the stability, performance, and reliability of customer-facing database environments.\n\nPerform root cause analysis (RCA) on production incidents spanning query performance, database configuration, infrastructure-level bottlenecks, and traffic/load conditions.\n\nDiagnose and resolve complex PostgreSQL performance, availability, and data-integrity issues, including query tuning, index strategy, vacuum/auto vacuum behavior, and lock contention.\n\nTroubleshoot and analyze production PostgreSQL systems across diverse hosting environments, ensuring performance, availability, and data integrity.\n\nReview execution plans, analyze slow queries, and recommend configuration, schema, or indexing changes to optimize production workloads.\n\nSupport customers running PostgreSQL across on-premises, cloud (AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure, GCP), and self-managed deployments.\n\nWork across development and production environments to trace issues to their source and collaborate with engineering on fixes and product improvements.\n\nAdvise on high-availability and disaster-recovery architectures including streaming replication, logical replication, failover, backup/restore (pg_basebackup, pgBackRest, WAL-G), and point-in-time recovery.\n\nCreate and maintain internal knowledge-based articles, runbooks, and best-practice documentation for the support team.\n\nMentor support engineers and developers on Postgres internals, SQL tuning, and operational best practices.\n\nParticipate in on-call rotation for critical customer escalations as needed.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nMinimum 5 years of hands-on experience as a PostgreSQL DBA, with deep knowledge of Postgres internals (MVCC, WAL, query planner, locking, buffer management) and operational best practices.\n\nProven track record managing PostgreSQL in production environments, including incident response, root cause analysis, and performance optimization under heavy traffic.\n\nStrong SQL skills, including query optimization and execution-plan analysis (EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN ANALYZE).\n\nExperience with PostgreSQL performance tuning: indexing strategies, autovacuum, connection pooling (PgBouncer), and configuration tuning (postgresql.conf).\n\nExperience with high availability and replication: streaming replication, logical replication, Patroni, or equivalent.\n\nExperience with backup and recovery tooling such as pgBackRest, WAL-G, pg_basebackup, or Barman.\n\nProficiency with Linux/Unix operating systems and shell scripting (Bash or similar).\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex database concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.\n\nLocated in North America with the ability to work core hours that overlap with the team.\n\n Preferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, Aurora Postgres, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, or Google Cloud SQL.\n\nScripting or automation experience in Python, PowerShell, or similar.\n\nFamiliarity with monitoring/observability tooling (Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, pganalyze, Sentry).\n\nExperience working in a customer-facing or customer-support-adjacent role.\n\nExposure to additional database platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB) and migration experience to/from Postgres.\n\nExperience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and containerized workloads (Kubernetes).\n\n What Success Looks Like\nIn the first 90 days, the successful candidate will have ramped up on our product and support workflows, taken ownership of escalated Postgres cases, and begun contributing to internal documentation and knowledge sharing. 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