About Kaseya
Kaseya is the leading provider of AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software, serving Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and internal IT organizations worldwide. Our comprehensive platform helps organizations efficiently manage, secure, and automate their IT environments, driving operational efficiency and long-term business success.
Backed by Insight Partners, a leading global software investor, Kaseya has experienced sustained double-digit growth and continues to expand its global footprint. Today, Kaseya supports customers in more than 20 countries and manages over 15 million endpoints worldwide.
Founded in 2000, Kaseya was built by builders - and we're still building. We look for people who create rather than wait, who see a hard problem and lean in, and who treat challenges as raw material. At Kaseya, everyone plays a role in shaping the future of IT: whether you're in engineering, product, sales, marketing, customer support, or operations, your work helps protect, defend, and optimize IT environments across the globe.
We're building teams that grow, perform, and make an impact. If you're driven by the itch to make things better - a product, a process, a career - you'll fit right in.
At Kaseya, we don't just raise the bar. We build it.
We are looking for a Staff Database Administrator to own and evolve our SQL Server database infrastructure across production and non-production environments. This senior individual contributor role within the Infrastructure and Operations team will be responsible for database availability, performance, security, disaster recovery, and long-term architectural direction. The role will support platforms including Autotask, Kaseya VSA, and our broader multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure, while serving as the primary escalation point for critical database incidents.
Key Responsibilities- Own the day-to-day administration, maintenance, monitoring, patching, and health of SQL Server environments across production, staging, and development.
- Drive database performance optimization through query tuning, execution plan analysis, index design, statistics management, and wait statistics analysis.
- Design, implement, and operate high-availability solutions, including SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, log shipping, and failover procedures.
- Own backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies, including point-in-time recovery, log chain management, recovery validation, and regular DR failover testing.
- Partner with application development teams to manage schema migrations and database changes while maintaining data integrity across multi-tenant environments.
- Define and own the long-term SQL Server technology roadmap, including evaluating cloud database options such as Azure SQL and AWS RDS where appropriate.
- Lead database capacity planning and forecasting across storage, IOPS, compute, and database growth requirements.
- Partner with Security, AWS Cloud, and DevOps teams on database security, access controls, encryption, monitoring, and CI/CD-based database deployments, while serving as a primary escalation point for critical database incidents and participating in the on-call rotation.
- 6 or more years of hands-on SQL Server DBA experience in production enterprise environments, with demonstrated ownership at a senior or principal level
- Deep expertise in SQL Server performance tuning: execution plans, query rewrites, index design, statistics management, and wait type analysis
- Proven experience designing and operating SQL Server high availability solutions, specifically Always On Availability Groups
- Solid understanding of SQL Server backup and recovery architectures, including point-in-time recovery, log chain management, and DR failover testing
- Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS platforms at scale, including schema versioning, tenant isolation, and database-per-tenant or shared-schema architectures
- Strong scripting ability in T-SQL and PowerShell for automation of routine DBA tasks, alerting, and maintenance
- Familiarity with cloud-hosted SQL environments including Azure SQL or AWS RDS is a meaningful advantage for this role
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with a distributed team across US and India time zones
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Python scripting experience for database automation or monitoring integrations
- Familiarity with CMMC 2.0, FedRAMP, or other compliance frameworks that intersect with database security controls
- Previous experience in an MSP, SaaS, or IT management software company.
Additional information
Kaseya provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Skills Required
- 6 or more years of hands-on SQL Server DBA experience in production enterprise environments, with senior or principal-level ownership
- Deep expertise in SQL Server performance tuning, including execution plans, query rewrites, index design, statistics management, and wait type analysis
- Experience designing and operating SQL Server high-availability solutions, specifically Always On Availability Groups
- Understanding of SQL Server backup and recovery architectures, point-in-time recovery, log chain management, and disaster recovery failover testing
- Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS platforms at scale, including schema versioning, tenant isolation, and database-per-tenant or shared-schema architectures
- Strong T-SQL and PowerShell scripting ability for DBA automation, alerting, and maintenance
- Familiarity with cloud-hosted SQL environments, including Azure SQL or AWS RDS
- Clear and effective written English communication with distributed teams across US and India time zones
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Python scripting experience for database automation or monitoring integrations
- Familiarity with CMMC 2.0, FedRAMP, or other compliance frameworks related to database security controls
- Experience in an MSP, SaaS, or IT management software company
Kaseya Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kaseya and has not been reviewed or approved by Kaseya.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is commonly described around 20–21 days per year plus standard holidays. Some indicate they can fully disconnect while on leave.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity or option grants are available to many roles, offering potential upside beyond base pay. This exposure is presented as a meaningful component of total compensation for some roles.
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Affordable Benefits — The high‑deductible medical plan is described as having low or employer‑covered employee‑only premiums in some cases. This can reduce out‑of‑pocket costs for those who select the HDHP.
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What We Do
Kaseya is a premier provider of unified IT management and security software for managed service providers (MSPs) and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBS). Through its customer-centric approach, Kaseya delivers best-in-breed technologies that allow organizations to efficiently manage, secure and backup IT. Kaseya offers a broad array of IT management solutions, including well-known names: Kaseya, IT Glue, RapidFire Tools, Spanning Cloud Apps, ID Agent, Graphus, RocketCyber, TruMethods and Unitrends. These solutions empower businesses to command all of IT centrally, easily manage remote and distributed environments, simplify backup and disaster recovery, safeguard against cybersecurity attacks, effectively manage compliance and network assets, streamline IT documentation and automate across IT management functions. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Kaseya is privately held with a presence in over 20 countries.
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