Staff Database Administrator

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.

Position Summary

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.

Required Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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.

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