Database Engineer - MySQL

They are looking for a new enthusiastic and dedicated Database Engineer - MySQL (remote) to come on board.

What you’ll be doing…

• You’ll be teaming with some of the most well-known database experts in the industry who are even better teammates, friends and mentors.
• You’ll have the opportunity to develop your own skills and become more powerful than you can possibly imagine…. with databases.
• This is not a boring, entry-level role where you’ll just be triaging the boring and monotonous.
• Your main responsibility will be helping their customers’ DBA teams when they need expert assistance.
• You’ll do that by gathering relevant data and investigating issues to provide a detailed analysis of your findings in a digestible format by email, instant message or voice. For more serious and production impacting issues, you’ll perform screen sharing sessions to help them quickly navigate and resolve issues.
• When you’re not fixing things, you’ll be authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for their open-source community to digest, answering questions on their forum, creating new articles in their customer-facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues, and hosting webinars amongst other things.

This is a remote role, so you can be located anywhere in the world. All you need is a decent, stable internet connection.

What does it take to be their Superhero?

• Exceptional knowledge of MySQL
• Be a wizard with databases and associated technical configurations
• Knowledgeable about performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning
• Detailed understanding of monitoring requirements
• Demonstrable experience in administering Linux based systems
• Ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues
• Enthused to expand your skillset with new technologies as the industry continues to evolve
• Availability to travel for the occasional team meeting, conference and customer visit
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to work effectively with English-speaking customers

It's a bonus if you have experience with these:

• Backup solutions such as XtraBackup, & MyDumper
• HA solutions such as MHA
• Galera / XtraDB Cluster, & HAProxy
• Cloud Services such as AWS and RDS
• Configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• MySQL DBA Professional Certifications
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• Kubernetes / OpenShift / Docker
• Location: Remote, work from home position. Part-time collaboration is accepted. Participation with the on-call team schedule. A stable internet connection is required.

Of course, everyone’s career has a different path and you may not have all of the skills and/or experience listed above.

However, if you feel you might fit the job, feel free to contact them.