Posted 16 days ago
Junior Database Administrator
@ Forum Ventures
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Forum Ventures is hiring a Junior Database Administrator to work alongside its senior DBA on SQL query optimization, database performance monitoring, and day-to-day backups, restores and access management. The role is full-time, hands-on and in person, with mentorship and room to take on more ownership.
Pay:
$70,000–$80,000 a year
Responsibilities:
- Write, review and optimize SQL queries and stored procedures
- Monitor database performance and troubleshoot slow queries
- Support backups, restores, security and access management
- Work with developers on application database usage
Requirements summary:
- 2 to 5 years of hands-on database experience (recent grads considered)
- Strong SQL knowledge including complex queries and indexing
- Experience with MySQL
- Understanding of DBA fundamentals and relational database design
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-21
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-21
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-21
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Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | IT |
| Experience | 2+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Forum Ventures
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Full company description
Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B tech startups. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, we’re on a mission to make the startup journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders. To date, we have made 500+ pre-seed and seed investments globally. Those founders have gone on to raise $1B+ in follow-on funding from funds like Kleiner Perkins, Andreesen Horowitz, General Catalyst, NEA, Emergence Capital, Menlo Ventures, Craft Ventures, Founders Fund and more. To learn more visit Forumvc.com. Looking for more founder-focused advice? Subscribe to The Midnight Text -- a bi-weekly newsletter that provides honest answers to the unspoken questions that keep founders awake at (mid)night. https://midnighttext.substack.com/
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- Reported office locations
- 43 W 23rd St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10010, US
- 169 Gore Vale Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6J 2R5, CA
- 149 Natoma Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, US
- Business categories
- Construction
- Finance
- E-Commerce
- Health Care
- Information Technology
- Software
- Retail
- SaaS
- B2B
- Venture Capital
- Financial Services
- Manufacturing
- Other recorded names
- Forum Ventures
- Specialties
- SaaS
- Enterprise Software
- Incubator
- Accelerator
- Startups
- b2b
- fintech
- healthtech
- FoW
- and Vertical AI
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- Reported total investment
- 84,430,000
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Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B tech startups. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, we’re on a mission to make the startup journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders. To date, we have made 500+ pre-seed and seed investments globally. Those founders have gone on to raise $1B+ in follow-on funding from…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2014 |
| Specialties | SaaSEnterprise SoftwareIncubatorAcceleratorStartupsb2bfintechhealthtechFoWand Vertical AI |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 19 |
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About us
You'll be joining a small, highly collaborative engineering team at Hybrid Financial, a distribution and outreach firm that works with public companies and asset managers. We build full-stack applications, including the internal execution platforms our agents rely on every day to do their work in financial services. Engineers here work closely with each other and with the people who use what we build, so you'll see how your work affects the business directly.
We're a close team with a very long tenure. We work in person, we talk to each other a lot and we genuinely like working together. We take chances on people and invest in helping them grow.
About the role
We’re looking for a talented Junior Database Administrator to join our team and work alongside our senior DBA. You’ll help write and optimize SQL queries, monitor database performance, and support the day-to-day work that keeps our databases secure and reliable, including backups, restores, and access management. This role is perfect for someone with strong SQL fundamentals who wants to deepen their database expertise in a hands-on environment. You’ll receive mentorship from an experienced DBA, work closely with our engineering team, and have opportunities to take on more ownership as you grow.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Database Administration & Performance
Write, review, and optimize SQL queries and stored procedures for performance and scalability
Monitor database performance and troubleshoot slow queries and other issues
Design and maintain database schemas and indexes
Support backups, restores, security, and access management
Implement best practices for data integrity and reliability
Provide day-to-day database coverage when our senior DBA is away
Collaboration & Development
Work closely with developers on how our applications use the database
Contribute to technical discussions and decisions with the team
Document database structures, processes, and changes clearly
QUALIFICATIONS
Ideally 2 - 5 yrs of hands-on database experience. Strong recent grads with real experience will be considered.
Strong SQL knowledge, including complex queries, indexing, and query optimization
Experience with MySQL
Understanding of DBA fundamentals, including backups, recovery, security, and performance monitoring
Experience with relational database design principles
Ability to talk through problems and explain your thinking clearly
NICE TO HAVE
Experience in finance or financial services
Some application coding experience, ideally C# or .NET
Exposure to cloud platforms, ideally Azure
Experience with replication, high availability, or disaster recovery setups
Scripting for automation (PowerShell, Python, or Bash)
What we offer
Competitive compensation and benefits
Mentorship from experienced senior developers
Opportunities to lead projects and grow into mid-level roles
Inclusive, supportive team environment
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