Wealthsimple · 1 month ago
Sr. Database Administrator, Data Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expWealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. In this role, you'll be responsible for architecting, maintaining, and administrating our primary analytics data warehouses on Redshift & Snowflake, and collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure excellence of operation for our fleet of RDS Aurora Postgres DBs.
FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechImpact InvestingPersonal FinanceWealth Management
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain database infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments
Monitor database performance and implement optimizations to improve query efficiency
Develop and maintain backup/recovery procedures and ensure data integrity
Implement and manage database security measures, including access controls and encryption
Create Python scripts for database automation, monitoring, and maintenance tasks
Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize database schemas and queries
Provide guidance on database best practices and participate in code reviews
Plan and execute database upgrades and migrations with minimal downtime
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for database architecture and procedures
Participate in on-call rotation for database-related issues
Qualification
Required
5+ years of hands-on administration experience in production environments for at least one of: Redshift, Snowflake, PostgreSQL
Proficient in Python scripting for database automation and management tasks
Strong understanding of database internals, optimization, and performance tuning
Experience with high-availability deployments and disaster recovery strategies
Knowledge of database security best practices and compliance requirements
Experience with database monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting
Solid understanding of indexing strategies, query optimization, and execution plans
Familiarity with Terraform and GitHub
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and database change management tools
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Strong communication skills and the ability to work with a diverse group of stakeholders
Preferred
Experience with cost optimization operations, especially within AWS
Experience with financial technology systems and related compliance requirements
Experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
Knowledge of additional databases beyond the ones listed above
Contributions to open-source database projects or tools
Familiarity with data observability and visualization tools (Preset, Datadog, etc.)
Benefits
Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
Company
Wealthsimple
Wealthsimple is a fintech company that offers digital financial services to help investors grow and manage their money.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.44BKey Investors
TCVAllianz XPower Financial Corporation
2025-10-27Series E· $393.04M
2025-10-27Secondary Market· $142.93M
2021-05-03Series B· $610.77M
Leadership Team
Michael Katchen
Co-founder & CEO
Radhika Kakkar
COO
Recent News
Calgary Herald
2026-01-08
Globe and Mail
2025-12-25
Company data provided by crunchbase