MySQL Database Engineer
Percona
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Help our customers see the big picture and identify opportunities to improve their overall database infrastructures
- Team with some of the most well-known database ninjas in the industry who are even better teammates, friends, and mentors
- Improve and develop your own skills and become more proficient with databases
- Resolve complex database issues for Inc 50. companies
- Participate in team meetings and occasional conferences
Requirements
- Good hands-on knowledge of both MySQL and InnoDB
- Be skilled with some of the MySQL ecosystem of tools and technologies
- Knowledgeable about performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning
- Know-how of backup solutions such as Xtrabackup, mydumper, etc, and also of Point-in-Time-Recovery
- Some experience with High Availability solutions (replication, routers, proxies, etc)
- Exposure and practice with zero-downtime procedures
- Good understanding of monitoring requirements
- Demonstrable experience of administering Linux based systems
- Ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues
- Be self-taught and enthused to grow your skill set with new technologies as the industry continues to evolve
- Availability to travel for the occasional team meeting, conference or customer visit
- Experience working with customers in English
- Experience working in SLA-bound operations
Benefits
- flexible work hours
- paid time off programs
- funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences)
- ongoing connectivity allowances
- all your equipment for your remote office
- equity incentive plan
- healthy work/life balance benefits such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility
- social responsibility support through PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
MySQLInnoDBperformance tuningquery optimizationindex tuningXtrabackupmydumperPoint-in-Time-RecoveryHigh Availability solutionsLinux administration
Soft skills
troubleshootingproblem-solvingself-taughtenthusiasm for learningteam collaborationcommunicationcustomer interactionmethodical approachadaptabilitycapacity to think outside the box