Database Admin Engineer
Own and scale Mark43’s production database infrastructure, focusing on MySQL administration, monitoring, performance, reliability, upgrades, and recovery. The role requires at least seven years of production database experience, cloud infrastructure expertise, and familiarity with Terraform.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Monitor and alert on production databases to identify and respond to issues proactively.
- Review and optimize MySQL configurations for performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Identify problematic queries and improve performance using execution plans, indexing strategies, and related techniques.
- Partner with engineers on database schemas, indexes, and query patterns.
- Investigate production database issues, determine root causes, and implement lasting fixes.
- Automate routine database maintenance and operational tasks.
- Review capacity and performance trends to anticipate scaling needs and infrastructure improvements.
- Plan and execute database upgrades, migrations, and configuration changes while minimizing risk and customer impact.
- Strengthen backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes and validate data restoration.
- Maintain database documentation and operational runbooks.
- Support junior team members and develop collaborative working relationships.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional experience administering MySQL or similar production databases.
- Deep understanding of databases, automated testing, and agile methodologies.
- Experience designing and building infrastructure for complex cloud-based software applications.
- Comfort working in cloud environments and using Infrastructure as Code.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture.
- Collaborative communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with AWS, preferably AWS RDS and Aurora.
- Experience with Azure Databases.
- Contributions outside the core role, such as technical blog posts, event participation, or recruiting support.
Compensation and Benefits
- Target base salary: $140,000–$180,000 annually.
- Bonus opportunity.
- Company stock options.
- Health insurance, paid time off, and 401(k).
Skills
MySQL, AWS, Amazon Rds, Amazon Aurora, Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Infrastructure As Code, Database Monitoring, Query Optimization, Database Indexing, Microservices, Disaster Recovery
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