Who we are

Alloy is an Identity Decisioning Platform, enabling innovative fintech companies and banks to manage KYC, AML, fraud, risk and other components of customer onboarding. Alloy’s single API enables its customers to access over 80 third party data sources in real-time to improve decision-making and streamline customer experiences. Alloy is the industry leader, working with companies like Brex and Marqeta, as well as top 20 banks. We're backed by venture capital firms that have taken countless companies to IPO like Lightspeed Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Canapi Ventures, Primary Venture Partners, Eniac Ventures, and others and well positioned to bring on incredibly talented individuals to help take us to the next level!

What we’re looking for

Alloy is looking for a database administrator to improve the performance and monitor the health of our primary Postgres data store.  We're excited by the opportunity to bring on someone with particular expertise in Postgres database administration to take ownership over maintaining, scaling, and optimizing the db.  In this role, you'll have the opportunity to help the company scale out postgres (including sharding/partitioning decisions), and collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to tune the datastore to support different use cases.

You’ll be part of the data team and a member of the broader engineering group, working closely with backend and frontend engineers that value collaboration, flexible work arrangements, working reproducibly, testing, and software craftsmanship.  Our team's culture values curiosity, learning, connecting data to Alloy's strategy, open source tools, rigor, and a spirit of relentless resourcefulness. 

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Director of Data, the Database Administrator will:

• Ensure healthy operation of RDS Postgres DB via standard DBA activities
• Lead and contribute to database design discussions in support of application development teams
• Own db change management and deployment process
• Review and provide high-quality input on database migrations
• Define database standards, guidelines and best practices
• Engage in periodic capacity planning and cost estimation
• Provision high quality anonymized data to lower environments
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of database features, version and technologies

On a given day, this might look like:

• reviewing a complex database migration that involves changes to a frequently used index
• analyzing frequently used queries to suggest improvements in our indexing or storage strategy
• modifying a db monitoring and alerting dashboard to get more accurate load statistics
• building a sharding strategy on a key db table that keeps latency on reads/writes for recent data low, while ensuring access to older data

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years of experience using relational databases (Postgres highly preferred)
• Minimum of 3 years experience administering databases (Postgres highly preferred)
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience working on AWS 
• Experience and expertise working with AWS-based relational and non-relational databases
• Solutions-oriented, hands-on, with a bias for action
• Ability to collaborate: advocate for your ideas and listen to other
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to respond to and support on-call events

Benefits and Perks!

• Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy; we are remote for most roles!
• Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA employer contribution, FSA, and FSA dependent programs
• 401k with 100% match up to 4% with immediate vesting and eligibility
• $500 to set up your WFH space - a one time thing
• Monthly commuter contribution
• Monthly credits for groceries from Public Goods
• Monthly credits for Seamless
• Monthly wellness credits to ClassPass
• Annual Citi Bike membership
• Annual $1,000 learning & development stipend
• 4 free therapy sessions and 3 months of talk therapy

We're a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately. If this all sounds like a good fit for you, why not join us?

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.