# Staff Database Administrator at Altruist

- Company: Altruist
- What the company does: The AI-forward wealth platform and custodian that unifies account opening, trading, portfolio management, billing, and reporting. Backed by Insight and ICONIQ.
- Company website: https://altruist.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://altruist.com/join-altruist/6185797004?gh_jid=6185797004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altruist-staff-database-administrator/

## About the role

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!

## What they're looking for

- Own the production PostgreSQL estate end to end — multi-terabyte Aurora clusters across clearing, broker-dealer, and internal platform workloads — including capacity, performance, availability, and cost
- Drive database segmentation. Carve our most critical domains out of shared clusters into dedicated ones with their own read paths, so failover, upgrades, and blast radius are scoped per domain rather than per fleet
- Own the upgrade program. Plan and execute major-version upgrades across the fleet with minimal downtime, and keep engine versions current enough that they never gate replication or recovery capability
- Raise the bar on schema-change governance: review standards for migrations, index and locking review, and automated guardrails so unsafe changes are caught before they reach production rather than during market hours
- Partner with security and compliance on encryption, row-level security, least-privilege access, and the evidence our SOC 1 and regulatory obligations depend on
- Be a senior escalation point for database-driven incidents, and turn each one into a durable fix, a runbook, or an alert rather than a repeat

Tags: Engineering