Senior Database Administrator

What are we building? Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We're building a team that resonates with passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interactions, experiences, behavior, and insights, and we strive to ensure we always act authentically. Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We're taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space. Ready to join us? What's the position? Every bet and payout at Hard Rock Digital is a database transaction that has to be fast and accurate. A casino game resolves in milliseconds; settling a big sporting event moves millions of balances at once, and none can be wrong. We're hiring a Senior Database Administrator to own production reliability for our CockroachDB and PostgreSQL fleet. You'll diagnose contention, range hotspots, retry storms, plan regressions, and cross-region latency in systems that move money at scale. You'll read execution plans and reason about the optimizer that produced them, inspect database internals when behavior doesn't match the docs, write Go and Python tooling that makes the next incident faster to solve, and set standards that application engineers rely on under pressure. Claude Code, Codex, and similar AI harnesses are part of how this team works. You'll use them to investigate incidents, generate probes, summarize evidence, and turn one-off debugging into durable tooling. The goal is to spend less time on toil and more on the work that compounds: better defaults, safer migrations, and tooling that makes the next incident shorter than the last. What You'll Do Reliability & Performance Operate and evolve multi-region CockroachDB clusters and PostgreSQL