Senior Database Administrator

Too many people in the U.S. continue to be left behind by traditional financial services institutions. At Stash, an investing app for more than 2 million active subscribers, we’re on a mission to address that reality by empowering people to invest and build better lives. We’re turning money into a source of hope and opportunity and giving our customers the confidence to take charge of their money and financial future.

It’s an exciting time to be a Stasher! Bolstered by a new slate of world-class leaders and a fresh round of financing, we’re headed into our next phase of growth with momentum. We’ve implemented product enhancements that make it easier for individuals to start their financial journey with us, and operational changes to help us deliver for and support our customers with optimal speed, rigor, and transparency. Also in the past year, Stash launched its groundbreaking back-end infrastructure, Stash Core, allowing the company to exceed 70% in gross margin as it marches towards profitability.

Our brilliant DevOps team is growing and we are looking for a passionate Senior Database Administrator to join and help us build reliable, scalable and secure infrastructure and tooling to empower our internal and external users.   You'll be working hand in hand with many talented and diverse engineers across the Product Engineering, Security, and Data teams to build out and shape our infrastructure.   What You’ll Do

• Own the storage and database systems at Stash
• Contribute to the improved reliability of Stash applications by designing and implementing HA and replication strategies for DR
• Continuously analyze and evaluate our tools and systems for improvements and enhancements via query optimization
• Support the development, deployment, and evolution of platforms, business critical services on AWS
• Collaborate with Product Engineering, Security and Data engineers to spec out requirements, implementation, documentation, maintenance, and improvement of our tooling
• Work on ways to automate and improve development
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Write documentation for the operation of infrastructure and applications owned by the DevOps team, including runbooks, checklists and incident reporting

Who We’re Looking For

• At least 5 years of experience as a Database Engineer
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems
• Experience implementing and maintaining application performance monitoring tools
• Familiar with RDS Postgres as well as other Relational Databases, CockroachDB
• Good understanding of Linux/Unix Operating Systems
• Experience working with AWS and understanding of its services
• Use of infrastructure as code e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, scripting and automation
• Working knowledge of containerized infrastructure, ideally experience with Kubernetes
• Data-driven decision maker, willing to take risks, fail fast, and iterate quickly
• Excellent communication skills

Gold Stars

• Experience with Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, CockroachDB
• Experience building an application at scale

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Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We proudly celebrate the unique qualities that make you you, 365 days a year, and not just because it’s the right thing to do or good for business. We embed the principles and practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into all that we do to prioritize people, a Stash core value, and to ensure Stashers of all backgrounds and experiences can be their authentic selves. 

We are also proud to be the first and only venture-backed fintech to join the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™, and as an Equal Opportunity Employer, Stash is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds.

If you require any reasonable accommodations to make your application process more accessible, please reach out to recruiting@Stash.com.

Helping You Invest in Yourself 

• Comprehensive total rewards package, comprising compensation (base salary, equity, and depending on level, an annual bonus) and health care benefits 
• Complimentary subscription to Stash+ account 
• Remote-first work policy – Live and work where you feel the most productive, whether that is in your home, in an office (including our NYC and London offices), or a combina