Senior Infrastructure Engineer (PostgreSQL DBA)

<div class="content-intro"><h1><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About Workato</strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Workato is the leading Control and Execution Platform for Enterprise AI — the neutral platform enterprises trust to put AI to work across their business. Workato unifies data, applications, and processes into a single platform so AI can reliably orchestrate business processes in production at enterprise scale. Built on more than a decade of running mission-critical processes for over half the Fortune 500 — including Nasdaq, Amazon, Cisco, Vodafone, Atlassian, and Lucid Motors — Workato turns over 14,000 enterprise systems AI needs to act on into one governed execution layer. 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That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment </span><a href="http://www.workato.com/careers"><span style="font-weight: 400;">along with a multitude of benefits</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. 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Our PostgreSQL runs on Amazon Aurora —&nbsp; operating a large, fast-growing fleet consistently: turning one-off procedures into reliable automation, keeping dozens of clusters healthy at once, and helping developers use the database well. You'll split your time between a support rotation for incoming developer requests and longer-cycle reliability and automation projects.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this role, y</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ou will also be responsible to:</span></p> <ul> <li> <p>Own day-to-day PostgreSQL operations across all production data centers: index creation on large/partitioned tables, query-plan analysis, schema reviews, data migrations.</p> </li> <li> <p>Partner with application teams on data-model decisions — design, partitioning, retention, consolidation vs. standalone clusters — and push back with data when a design won't scale.</p> </li> <li> <p>Operate and tune Aurora PostgreSQL: parameter groups, replicas, failover behavior, capacity planning.</p> </li> <li> <p>Run and evolve our PgBouncer connection-pooling layer.</p> </li> <li> <p>Turn manual runbooks into released, repeatable automation: seamless upgrade, switchover, database/user provisioning, grants management (Terraform + Ansible).</p> </li> <li> <p>Drive incident response and RCAs for database-related issues, and land the follow-up actions.</p> </li> <li> <p>Maintain and improve database observability (postgres_exporter, VictoriaMetrics dashboards and alerts).</p> </li> <li> <p>Take part in the team's duty rotation handling developer requests, with protected focus time off-duty.</p> </li> </ul> <h1><strong>Requirements</strong></h1> <h3><strong>Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>5+ years of hands-on operational PostgreSQL experience (DBA / database reliability role).</p> </li> <li> <p>Strong command of query plans, indexing strategy, and performance work on multi-TB tables.</p> </li> <li> <p>Production experience with managed PostgreSQL (Aurora or RDS) and a clear-eyed view of its constraints.</p> </li> <li> <p>Working proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code practices; comfortable in Linux.</p> </li> <li> <p>Experience with connection pooling (PgBouncer or similar) in production.</p> </li> <li> <p>Practical experience with logical replication, major-version upgrades, and low-downtime migration techniques.</p> </li> <li> <p>Scripting ability (Bash, Python or GO) and an automation-first mindset.</p> </li> <li> <p>Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred); strong incident-management and RCA skills.</p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>Nice to Haves</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>Operational exposure to ClickHouse, OpenSearch, or Redis/Valkey, Neo4j.</p> </li> <li> <p>Kubernetes fundamentals (our poolers, proxies, and exporters run on EKS).</p> </li> <li> <p>Experience with Vault, ArgoCD, or GitOps workflows.</p> </li> <li> <p>Comfort using AI coding assistants to accelerate routine analysis and tooling.</p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>Tech Stack</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>AWS • Aurora PostgreSQL • Kubernetes • PgBouncer • Terraform • Ansible • VictoriaMetrics • Vault • Linux</p> </li> </ul> <p><strong>(REQ ID: 2960)</strong></p>

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