Senior Database Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Take the lead on a production MySQL migration, overseeing strategy and implementation in a dynamic, high-scale setting.

• Contribute to a mission-critical platform serving 100k users, where your choices have a direct effect on performance, reliability, and user satisfaction.

• Work collaboratively with engineering, DevOps, QA, and architecture teams to tackle complex, real-world migration challenges.

• Examine database schemas, queries, replication, and compatibility risks both prior to and during the migration process.

• Analyze database interaction patterns within Java microservices, focusing on JDBC, connection pooling, and transaction behaviors.

• Develop Cloud SQL migration strategies aimed at minimizing business disruptions.

• Enhance database performance by assessing slow queries, indexing, execution plans, locking, and storage behaviors.

• Verify backup, recovery, replication, failover, and disaster recovery procedures to ensure production readiness.

• Establish database monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and health check protocols.

• Reinforce database security measures, access controls, encryption, patching, and compliance practices.

• Streamline database operations through automation using scripting and infrastructure tools.

• Produce migration runbooks, playbooks, and comprehensive technical documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of practical MySQL Database Administration experience within production environments.

• Demonstrated experience with significant MySQL version upgrades or large-scale database migrations.

• In-depth knowledge of MySQL internals, including indexing, query optimization, partitioning, replication, and transaction behavior.

• Strong SQL capabilities with the proficiency to diagnose complex performance issues.

• Direct experience managing Linux or other Unix-like operating systems, along with scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages.

• Familiarity with managed cloud database services, such as Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, or equivalent platforms.

• Experience with production database operations including backup/restore, high availability, disaster recovery, and failover procedures.

• Ability to plan and implement database modifications with minimal downtime.

• Capacity to work autonomously while effectively collaborating across technical teams.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead technical discussions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Enjoy 30 paid days off each year — take them as needed for relaxation, holidays, or personal time.

• Benefit from 5 paid sick days, up to 60 days of medical leave, and 6 paid days off annually for significant family events such as weddings, funerals, or childbirth.

• Receive partially covered health insurance after the probation period, plus a wellness bonus for gym memberships, sports nutrition, and similar needs after 6 months.

• Enhance your skills through English lessons, online training, conferences, and the opportunity to explore new career paths.