Senior Database Administrator

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will have a meaningful role in ensuring our critically important database systems are secure, scalable, and reliable. You'll join a world-class team, applying your expertise to support the high-traffic, data-intensive workloads that power our popular gaming platforms.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• Significant production experience with MySQL in critical environments.
• Deep expertise in MySQL internals, replication and backup/recovery strategies, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Proven experience operating databases with high efficiency and low latency.
• Ability to collaborate effectively 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, is desirable.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.