Senior Database Platform Engineer
Core
Own the administration and reliability of Proton's web-scale MySQL fleet, design automation to eliminate manual toil, and tune performance across the full stack.
Role type
Senior Database Platform Engineer
Builds
Web-scale MySQL database platform serving hundreds of millions of users
Domain
Infrastructure / Database Administration
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
MySQL administration, ProxySQL, Linux, automation scripting, performance tuning, observability, bare-metal infrastructure
Preferred skills
Distributed databases (CockroachDB, YugabyteDB), Puppet, high-traffic ProxySQL deployments
Technologies
MySQL, ProxySQL, Ansible, Puppet, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, PMM, Icinga, Linux, CockroachDB, YugabyteDB
Responsibilities
Own administration and reliability of web-scale MySQL fleet including 24/7 on-call rotation; Design and implement automation to eliminate manual operational toil; Write code and tooling to improve management, monitoring, and scaling of the database platform; Own performance tuning across hardware, OS, storage, network, and query levels; Drive database best practices into product design reviews; Lead planning and execution of database version upgrades and full stack updates
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC