Sr Database Administrator

About the company

Apex Fintech Solutions (Apex) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by building tech-forward solutions that help simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech software supports clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, Webull, and eToro, collectively powering access to the stock market for over 22+ million end customers.

At Apex, we are changing how the securities industry operates by reinventing the status quo, which was manual, slow, and accessible only by the ultra-wealthy. We're digitizing and democratizing systems so that everyone has an opportunity to invest. With over 1,000 employees across offices in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland, Belfast, and Manila, we’re shaping the future of financial innovation.

We’re proud to be recognized for our innovative work, purpose-driven culture, and collaborative environment, including awards such as Best Places to Work (BuiltIn), WealthTech of the Year (US FinTech Awards), and recognition as one of the World’s Top 250 Fintech Companies (CNBC).

About the role

Apex Fintech Solutions is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to join our team. This role requires strong database engineering and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-volume database environment using GCP-managed databases (Cloud SQL Postgres, Memorystore for Redis/Valkey, AlloyDB, Spanner, BigQuery).

The Senior DBA will play a critical role in administering, maintaining, optimizing, and supporting our database systems, ensuring data integrity, performance, and availability across both physical and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) native infrastructures. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Postgres Server and modern cloud-native database solutions such as GCP CloudSQL PostgreSQL, Redis, and BigQuery.

This role also requires embracing DevOps practices, including automating database operations, implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for provisioning and maintaining database environments, managing CI/CD pipelines for database changes, monitoring and alerting, and collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of database systems within the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize high-volume MongoDB and PostgreSQL systems (including Cloud SQL) in highly available environments.
• Design and own Terraform modules for GCP databases: Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL), Memorystore (Redis/Valkey), AlloyDB, Spanner, and BigQuery.
• Manage large transactional replication with low-latency delivery; use BigQuery as a replication target and tune performance/cost.
• Implement database changes via IaC (Terraform with GitHub PRs) following performance, security, and reliability best practices.
• Establish backup/restore, point-in-time recovery (PITR), HA/failover testing, disaster recovery (DR) runbooks, and an overall database support plan.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on schema reviews, query optimization, and BigQuery governance.
• Handle security and audit tasks; respond to support requests and data change needs promptly.
• Support incident response and participate in on-call rotations (including off-hours, Central Time) and scheduled maintenance such as patching, large data scripts, very large database (VLDB) index work, and DR testing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of prior work experience in database administration.
• Experience administering and optimizing MongoDB and PostgreSQL Server environments, including expertise in transactional replication.
• Experience with GCP CloudSQL PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL database management.
• Experience with Memorystore for Redis, AlloyDB, Spanner, and BigQuery (preferred).
• Experience with other cloud-based database technologies or platforms, such as Azure SQL or AWS RDS (preferred).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and version control systems like GitHub for managing database infrastructure changes.
• Experience with high-availability architectures, disaster recovery planning, and execution.

Skills

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Expertise in Memorystore for Redis, AlloyDB, Spanner, and BigQuery (preferred).
• Familiarity with cloud-based database systems, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Familiarity with DevOps methodologies, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of GCP BigQuery, including performance tuning and administrative capabilities.
• Programming and scripting knowledge for automation.
• Willingness to provide on-call and off-hours technical support as required.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision, and EAP).
• Competitive PTO.
• 401k match.
• Parental leave.
• HSA contribution match.
• Paid subscription to the Calm app.
• Generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits.

At AFS, we offer a hybrid work schedule for most roles, allowing employees the flexibility of working from home and one of our primary offices.