Senior MySQL Database Administrator (DBA)
Core
End-to-end ownership of high-performance, highly available MySQL platforms supporting production game workloads (>50k QPS), including architecture, performance optimization, automation, and security.
Role type
Senior IC MySQL Database Administrator
Builds
Scalable, secure, and reliable database systems for high-traffic gaming platforms
Domain
Gaming / Database Administration
Required skills
MySQL internals, MongoDB internals, replication and backup/recovery strategies, query optimization and performance tuning, high-availability and scaling patterns, Linux administration, automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Helm), observability (PMM, Prometheus, Grafana)
Preferred skills
MySQL clustering technologies (Galera Cluster), PostgreSQL, Redis, GCP (Cloud SQL), AWS
Technologies
MySQL, Percona MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Cloud SQL, PMM, Prometheus, Grafana
Responsibilities
Design database solutions supporting long-term data growth and fault tolerance; proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across schema, queries, and configuration; define and meet database reliability targets (SLOs); improve automation for provisioning, backup, replication, and schema migrations; enforce database security standards and access controls; guide engineers and DBAs to improve database maturity
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
