Senior Database Administrator

EquipmentShare is Hiring a Database Administrator

EquipmentShare is searching for a Database Administrator to support our Engineering team. This position can be local to the Columbia, MO area, Kansas City, MO area, or it can be remote. 

Your Opportunity to Grow With Us

EquipmentShare is a technology solutions and equipment company that is on the move and challenging the way construction gets done. We’re looking for ambitious and dedicated people who want more than a paycheck to help build the future of the industry.

We’re seeking a Database Administrator to help us design and support persistence solutions in service of our company mission. Our Database Administrator will have the opportunity to help the Engineering team continue to design and build scalable cloud based applications. You’ll serve as the team’s expert when it comes to planning, deploying, tuning and supporting our databases. You’ll use best practices to ensure your team continues to successfully build high-performing, reliable, and scalable data architectures. 

The Database Administrator will work with a highly collaborative, loosely structured team that’s growing fast. Our ideal candidate has experience and is comfortable working in a dynamic environment and assisting with RDBMS design and maintenance.  You are comfortable turning loose requirements into rugged and actionable solutions.

Primary Responsibilities as a Senior Database Administrator 

• Manage and optimize the performance, reliability, and security of databases running on Amazon Aurora
• Implement and manage database security measures, including access controls, authentication, and encryption.
• Monitor database resource utilization, predict growth patterns, and plan for capacity scaling to accommodate increasing workloads. 
• Collaborate with infrastructure team to optimize database infrastructure and storage provisioning
• Collaborate with application developers and architects to design efficient database schemas, ensuring data integrity and scalability
• Respond to database-related incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions. 
• Troubleshoot performance issues, connectivity problems and database errors to minimize downtime
• Develop automation scripts and implement tools to streamline database management tasks, deployments and monitoring.

About You 

Our mission to change an entire industry is not easily achieved, so we only hire people who are inspired by the goal and up for the challenge. In turn, our employees have every opportunity to grow with us, achieve personal and professional success and enjoy making a tangible difference in an industry that’s long been resistant to change. 

Skills & Qualifications as a Senior Database Administrator

Above all, you’ll get stuff done.  More importantly, you’ll collaborate to do the right things, in the right way to achieve the right outcomes.

• Significant experience designing solutions using relational databases
• Experience monitoring, supporting, and tuning PostgreSQL Databases
• Familiarity with designing data around domains (Domain Driven Design) and familiarity with microservice architectures.
• Bonus points if you have experience with AWS services and features such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS lambda, AWS CloudWatch, Python, DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases

Why We’re a Better Place to Work

• Competitive base salary and market leading equity package (pre-IPO).
• Unlimited PTO.
• Remote first.
• True work/life balance.
• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance coverage.
• 401(k) + match.
• Opportunities for career and professional development with conferences, events, seminars and continued education.
• On-site fitness center at the Home Office in Columbia, Missouri, complete with weightlifting machines, cardio equipment, group fitness space, racquetball courts, a climbing wall, and much more!
• Volunteering and local charity support that help you nurture and grow the communities you call home through our Giving Back initiative.
• Stocked breakroom and full kitchen with breakfast and lunch provided daily by our chef and kitchen crew.

We embrace diversity in all of its forms and foster an inclusive environment for all people to do their best work with us. 

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or