Avtal

Database Administrator (DBA) Austin, TXAbout Avtal

Avtal helps collection agencies connect with consumers in a more modern and friendly way - through white-labeled digital outreach that drives higher recovery rates and better experiences.

We've raised $9M (most recently led by S3 Ventures) and were recognized as their fastest-growing portfolio company. Our platform is quickly becoming the industry standard for digital debt collection. We're scaling our team and looking for people who want to help modernize a critical part of the financial system.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
• Optimize schema design, queries, and indexing to support high-volume transactional workloads.
• Develop and automate processes for backups, replication, and failover to ensure data integrity and uptime.
• Collaborate with backend and ML teams on data model evolution and system performance.
• Build and manage CI/CD database workflows using GitHub.
• Monitor database health and performance, implementing proactive improvements and alerts.
• Help triage and resolve production issues, working closely with product and engineering teams during incidents.
• Create Ad-Hoc reports to support customer support and product organizations.
• Participate in on-call rotations and support post-incident reviews.
• Implement and enforce database security, access control, and compliance best practices.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator or Database Engineer.
• Deep hands-on experience with PostgreSQL administration, tuning, and high availability.
• Strong SQL and scripting skills (bash, Python, or similar).
• Familiarity with GitHub, Ansible, or other automation tools.
• Experience with AWS RDS, EC2, or cloud-hosted PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
• Strong debugging and production triage skills able to quickly assess impact and drive toward resolution.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities across technical teams.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Elasticsearch, NSQ, or message queue architectures.
• Exposure to ML data pipelines and analytics workloads.
• Prior experience in a high-growth startup or SaaS environment.