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Senior 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
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.
- 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.
- 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.