Database Architect / DBA

About BlastPointBlastPoint is a B2B data analytics startup located in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We give companies the power to engage with customers more effectively by discovering the humans in their data and understanding customer journeys. Serving diverse industries including energy, finance, retail, and transportation, BlastPoint’s Customer Intelligence Platform makes data accessible to business users so they can plan solutions to customer-facing challenges, from encouraging green behavior to managing customers’ financial stress. Founded in 2016 by Carnegie Mellon Alumni, we are a tight-knit, forward-thinking team. Why You Should Work for UsSolve Challenging Problems: BlastPoint’s platform incorporates cutting-edge approaches to geospatial data, psychographic clustering, data enrichment and a dynamic visualization environment, all at scale. We’re working to break new ground by pulling insights from high-dimensional data. And we’re pushing ourselves to try new and better ways to approach every step of our process.Have An Impact: Small but mighty, BlastPoint’s growth is due to big companies increasingly trusting us with supporting key decisions using their most sensitive data. What we do positively impacts the lives of millions of Americans (and beyond).Make Positive Change in the World: Our solutions reduce paper consumption, help struggling families pay their bills, and promote clean energy. We also offer our platform for free to nonprofits and civic-oriented organizations.Employee-Focused Culture: We support the individual needs of our team, offering schedule and work-from-home flexibility, health insurance, 401K, and three weeks of PTO. We also tailor growth opportunities, from skills training to industry conferences.Equal Opportunity Employer: BlastPoint is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace, ensuring equal employment opportunities for individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.Our ValuesEverybody mattersWe beat expectationsInnovation built on a foundationCards on the table, always "The smartest systems from the most comprehensive data built by the best people”Salary Range: Base:$130K-160KAbout the RoleAbout the RoleBlastPoint is hiring a Database Architect / DBA to help strengthen the foundation of the data systems that power our SaaS platform.This role is for someone who brings strong ownership, practical judgment, and structure to a data-heavy environment. We are looking for a hands-on database leader who can partner across Engineering, Data Engineering, DevOps, Security, Product, and Data Science to improve how our systems scale, perform, and support customer needs.The right person will be comfortable working in a lean, fast-moving environment where they may need to move from strategy to execution quickly. They should be able to assess what is working today, identify where risk or complexity exists, and help the team make smart, scalable decisions.AI is an important part of how we expect this person to work. We are looking for someone who can use AI as a co-engineer to move faster, improve analysis and documentation, troubleshoot issues, and strengthen database workflows while still applying sound judgment around production systems, security, privacy, and compliance.You will help shape database practices that support a growing SaaS platform serving customers with varied data, security, and compliance requirements.Primary Job ResponsibilitiesOwn database architecture, performance, reliability, security, and scalability for core platform systems.Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate database analysis, documentation, query tuning, troubleshooting, and workflow improvement.Design database approaches for both single-tenant and multi-tenant SaaS environments, including migration strategies between tenancy models.Improve tenant isolation, customer-specific data separation, scalability, and compliance-ready data architecture.Review and improve schemas, indexes, queries, migrations, and data access patterns.Optimize SQL performance, indexing strategies, execution plans, and database bottlenecks.Partner with Engineering and Data Engineering on schema design, data modeling, migrations, pipelines, and performance-sensitive application changes.Help define database strategies across OLTP systems, OLAP workloads, reporting layers, and data pipelines.Strengthen database security practices, including encryption at rest, field-level encryption, column-level encryption, key management, access controls, and auditability.Establish practical standards for database migrations, rollback planning, production readiness, monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery.Support load testing, capacity planning, and performance benchmarking for critical workflows.Collaborate with DevOps on AWS-hosted database infrastructure, environment strategy, access controls, and cost optimization.Job Qualifications and Skills7+ years of exper