database administrator in open finance

Payward builds financial infrastructure platforms to advance an open, global financial system.

• Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters for global expansion and new product initiatives
• Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, and backup approaches through sound design and regularly validated procedures
• Reduce manual operational work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe, low-friction database workflows
• Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics, reducing noise, and ensuring operational clarity across environments
• Enhance database security through robust access controls, disciplined patching and upgrade practices, and secure operational patterns
• Contribute to platform initiatives, including containerized environments, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and reproducible deployments
• Partner with service teams to improve performance patterns, operational readiness, and database hygiene across the engineering organization
• Participate in on-call rotations, with a long-term focus on making on-call predictable through high-quality signals and preventative engineering

• 5+ Years operating MariaDB/MySQL in high-volume production environments, including tuning, replication, and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of high-availability patterns, distributed database behavior, and practical failure scenarios
• Hands-on experience with database proxies or load-balancing layers such as HAProxy, ProxySQL, or MaxScale
• Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows; Terraform experience is ideal
• Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals
• Experience building container images and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale
• Strong security instincts around access control, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows
• Expertise in monitoring, alerting hygiene, and incident response readiness
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including partnering with stakeholders, negotiating long-term plans, writing formal documentation, and tying success to specific metrics and KPIs
• Будет плюсом: SRE methodologies such as error budgets, operational reviews, or reliability programs; Python or Rust scripting or programming for automation and internal tools; GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI; multi-region or disaster-recovery designs; interest in cryptocurrency or decentralized systems

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific application deadline is stated
• Candidates may complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of the hiring process
• Qualified applicants with criminal histories are considered consistently with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance