Senior MySQL Database Administrator (DBA)

You will own the architecture and operation of high-performance MySQL platforms powering production game workloads. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable data infrastructure and contribute to roadmaps and capacity planning. Your work impacts performance, reliability, and compliance in a fast-paced, data-heavy gaming environment. This role offers hands-on optimization, automation, and mentorship to raise the organization’s database maturity.

• robust benefits package
• global career opportunities

• Own and evolve the architecture of high-performance, highly available MySQL platforms supporting production game workloads
• Build database solutions for long-term data growth, fault tolerance, and operational simplicity
• Contribute to technology roadmap planning, capacity forecasting, and architectural decision-making
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve database performance bottlenecks across schema, queries, indexing, and configuration
• Define and meet database reliability targets (SLOs) with Platform Reliability Team
• Improve and maintain automation for provisioning, backup/recovery, replication, failover, and disaster recovery
• Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, and tooling
• Define and enforce database security standards, access controls, and auditing; ensure regulatory compliance
• Partner with Architecture, Engineering, and Data Science to deliver secure, scalable, and performant database builds
• Provide hands-on support via pairing, build reviews, and technical consultation
• Build and maintain documentation covering architecture, operations, and guidelines
• Mentor engineers and DBAs to raise overall database maturity

• Significant production experience with MySQL in critical environments
• Deep expertise in MySQL internals, replication and backup/recovery, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Strong Linux administration skills
• Proven experience operating databases with high efficiency and low latency
• Ability to collaborate in a fast-paced, distributed environment
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Experience with MySQL clustering technologies and monitoring solutions is a plus
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially GCP (Cloud SQL) and AWS
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Helm

• Effective collaboration
• Strong communication
• Problem-solving mindset
• MySQL internals
• Replication and backup/recovery strategies
• Query optimization and performance tuning