Staff Database Engineer (DBA) at Jobgether
$175,000–$195,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on designing and scaling large-scale database systems for transactional and analytical workloads. Day-to-day work spans schema and query optimization, high-availability and disaster recovery planning, data governance, and building automation tooling, alongside architectural reviews and mentoring engineering teams. Suits a seasoned database engineer with deep relational database expertise and experience operating mission-critical production environments at scale.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 1,150–3,450
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,921 (middle half $81,361–$138,439). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role title is 'Staff Database Engineer (DBA)' but the actual scope — 8+ years required, deep individual-contributor technical authority over a single database domain — is consistent with a Senior-level role rather than a true Staff-level role that sets direction across multiple teams. 'Staff' is retained as the advertised level.
The SOC classification is a close call between 15-1242 (Database Administrators) and 15-1243 (Database Architects). The role spans both operational DBA responsibilities (backup, recovery, HA, replication) and architectural work (schema design, long-term data strategy, technology evaluation); 15-1242 is chosen as the primary because the operational and reliability accountabilities are prominent, with 15-1243 as the runner-up.
PostgreSQL is listed first among relational database options ('such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, or SQL Server'); all four are treated as interchangeable alternatives for the same hard-gated requirement.
Cloud data platforms (AWS RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, BigQuery, Snowflake) are explicitly flagged as 'preferred' in the JD and are marked accordingly.
Distributed databases, microservices/event-driven systems, and streaming technologies are explicitly called 'a plus' in the JD and are marked as preferred. Data modeling/governance/enterprise architecture is described as 'beneficial' and is omitted as it names no specific technology.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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