Database Architect / DBA
BlastPointabout 17 hours ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$130k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own database architecture, performance, reliability, security, and scalability for core platform systems.
- Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate database analysis, documentation, query tuning, troubleshooting, and workflow improvement.
- Design database approaches for both single-tenant and multi-tenant SaaS environments, including migration strategies.
- Improve tenant isolation, customer-specific data separation, scalability, and compliance-ready data architecture.
- Review and improve schemas, indexes, queries, migrations, and data access patterns.
- Optimize SQL performance, indexing strategies, execution plans, and database bottlenecks.
- Partner with Engineering and Data Engineering on schema design, data modeling, migrations, and performance-sensitive application changes.
- Help define database strategies across OLTP systems, OLAP workloads, reporting layers, and data pipelines.
- Strengthen database security practices, including encryption and access controls.
- Establish standards for database migrations, rollback planning, production readiness, monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery.
- Support load testing, capacity planning, and performance benchmarking for critical workflows.
- Collaborate with DevOps on AWS-hosted database infrastructure and cost optimization.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in database administration, architecture, data engineering, or backend systems engineering.
- Strong experience supporting production databases for SaaS, analytics, or customer-facing platforms.
- Comfort using AI tools as part of database engineering and analysis.
- Background working with single-tenant and multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
- Strong understanding of tenant isolation and shared database models.
- Deep experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server.
- Strong knowledge of SQL performance tuning, indexing, and schema design.
- Understanding of OLTP and OLAP strategies for workload separation.
- Data engineering exposure, including experience with data models and ETL workflows.
- Understanding of database encryption patterns and secure access controls.
- Experience designing database systems for varied industry and compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with cloud-hosted database environments, preferably AWS.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-moving engineering environment.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical tradeoffs and recommendations.
- Strong ownership, practical judgment, and ability to create structure from ambiguity.
Benefits
- Base Salary + Equity (Ownership in BlastPoint)
- Home Office: $500 stipend
- Health: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Time Off: 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, unlimited sick time
- Retirement: 401(k)