Senior MySQL Database Architect - High-Scale Payments

IXOPAY GmbH; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 68,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working with Vienna office

Vienna office location

Public transportation pass ( WienerLin

Gym & fitness access

Training, development & certifications

Job summary

IXOPAY GmbH seeks a Senior Database Engineer to build, operate, and evolve the database infrastructure powering our global payment platform. You will own reliability, performance, security, and scalability of large-scale MySQL environments, with opportunities to explore distributed SQL, sharding, and TiDB.

You will work with a Systems Engineering team to troubleshoot, optimize operations, and shape future database architecture, including migrations and automation across cloud and on-prem

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on MySQL in large-scale production environments.
• Experience with replication and high-availability configurations.
• Strong SQL performance tuning and index optimization skills.
• Experience with database monitoring tools and production incident handling.
• Ability to own technical initiatives and production systems with minimal downtime.
• German language skills (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and scale highly available MySQL and Percona Galera clusters.
• Ensure stability, security, and performance of multi-terabyte databases.
• Manage replication, failover, and high-availability configurations.
• Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application queries.
• Plan upgrades, migrations, and schema changes with minimal production disruption.
• Contribute to security, observability, and PCI DSS compliance.

Skills

MySQL Expert

DBA Production

Performance Tuning

Replication & Clustering

Linux Environments

Automation Scripting

German Proficiency

Tools

PMM

QAN

Grafana

Atlas

TiDB

Percona Galera

ProxySQL

Job description

IXOPAY GmbH seeks a Senior Database Engineer to build, operate, and evolve the database infrastructure powering our global payment platform. You will own reliability, performance, security, and scalability of large-scale MySQL environments, with opportunities to explore distributed SQL, sharding, and TiDB.

You will work with a Systems Engineering team to troubleshoot, optimize operations, and shape future database architecture, including migrations and automation across cloud and on-prem