Senior RDBA Engineer

The role

You will own the operational health of complex customer MariaDB environments. You will act as a senior escalation point for critical incidents and perform deep performance analysis and tuning.

What you will do

• Own the operational health of complex customer MariaDB environments
• Act as a senior escalation point for critical incidents
• Perform deep performance analysis and tuning
• Design, review and implement high availability and disaster recovery architectures
• Define and verify backup and recovery strategies
• Plan and execute major version upgrades and migrations
• Perform capacity planning and proactive health checks
• Automate repetitive work and build tooling, runbooks and standards
• Communicate directly with customers via technical calls, updates and reports
• Share knowledge and support less experienced team members

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on DBA experience with MariaDB and/or MySQL in production environments
• Deep knowledge of MariaDB/MySQL internals, InnoDB, query optimization and server tuning
• Strong, hands-on experience with replication (asynchronous, semi-synchronous, GTID) and Galera Cluster
• Experience designing and operating MariaDB MaxScale (read/write splitting, failover, routing)
• Proficiency with backup and recovery tools such as MariaDB Backup, mydumper and mysqldump, including point-in-time recovery
• Solid Linux system administration skills, covering storage, networking and OS-level performance troubleshooting
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, Go or similar) for automation
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production incidents under pressure
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Comfortable working remotely and autonomously

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes and containers, including running stateful databases on Kubernetes
• Experience with MariaDB ColumnStore or other columnar databases
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and managed database services
• Experience with MariaDB/MySQL monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus, PMM)
• Experience in a 24x7 support or Remote DBA environment
• Contributions to open source software in the MariaDB/MySQL ecosystem
• MariaDB and/or MySQL certifications
• Experience in pre-sales or architecture reviews with customers

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• 25 days paid annual leave (plus holidays)
• Massive degree of flexibility and freedom

Before you apply

• MariaDB does not sponsor work visas or relocation

About the company

MariaDB is a leading database for modern application development used by companies including 75% of the Fortune 500.