Senior Database Administrator

About the Role

Join our experienced team as a Senior Database Administrator, focusing on designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure database solutions in a rapidly evolving crypto environment.

About the Team

The DBA team is responsible for creating scalable solutions to reliably and securely support our customer base. This role involves a mix of production support, cross-team collaboration, and project work to scale and solidify the system, facing unique challenges where security, performance, availability, scalability, data integrity, and productivity are paramount.

Responsibilities

• Scale and optimize a distributed high-load MariaDB cluster, ensuring high performance and scalability.
• Enhance and improve high availability, disaster recovery, backup/recovery, and monitoring solutions.
• Troubleshoot various performance and availability issues across the database and infrastructure stack.
• Manage database security, patching, and upgrades while ensuring best practices.
• Bring a DevOps mindset to database operations, implementing automation, CI/CD, and GitOps workflows.
• Improve infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud deployment strategies.
• Help development teams be more productive through better tooling, automation, and best practices.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and provide off-hours production support when needed.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of MariaDB/MySQL (5+ years) with experience in high-volume production environments, advanced replication schemes, sharding, and tuning.
• Familiarity with database proxies like HAProxy, ProxySQL, and MaxScale for high availability and load balancing.
• Strong programming and scripting skills, e.g., Bash, Python, Go, or similar.
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, Gitops, and infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (VPC, EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, IAM) and cloud-native best practices.
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.