Senior MySQL Platform Engineer - Remote & Stock Options

Proton; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 47.000 - 71.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Stock options

Lunch and snacks in the office

Remote flexibility up to 30%

Zusammenfassung

Proton in Geneva is seeking a Database Platform Engineer to own the administration and reliability of Proton's web-scale MySQL fleet, including a 24/7 on-call rotation.

You will design automation to reduce manual toil, write tooling to manage, monitor, and scale the database platform, and drive performance tuning across hardware, OS, storage, and queries for reliable, scalable services.

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years of hands-on experience operating highly available MySQL databases at scale in production.
• Deep MySQL expertise: replication, query optimization, indexing, schema design, and performance tuning at the OS and application layers.
• Solid experience with ProxySQL and Linux in production environments.
• Strong automation background — you've meaningfully reduced operational toil through scripting or custom tooling (Python, Go, Bash, or equivalent).
• Comfortable with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable) and using data to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues.
• Experience running databases on bare-metal or on-premise infrastructure (not cloud-managed DB services).

Aufgaben

• Own the administration and reliability of Proton's web-scale MySQL fleet, accessed via ProxySQL, including participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Design and implement automation that eliminates manual operational toil and measurably improves platform reliability.
• Write code and tooling to improve how we manage, monitor, and scale the database platform — treating infrastructure as software.
• Own performance tuning across the full stack — hardware, OS, storage, network, and query level — and resolve bottlenecks before they become incidents.
• Drive database best practices into product design reviews, providing clear guidance on architecture, data modeling, scalability, and system integration.
• Lead the planning and execution of database version upgrades and full stack updates with minimal service disruption.
• Shape Proton's long-term database strategy — evaluating emerging technologies like distributed databases and influencing cross-company engineering standards.

Kenntnisse

MySQL

ProxySQL

Automation

Observability

Linux

Performance tuning

Tools

Python

Go

Bash

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

PMM

Icinga

Ansible

Puppet

Jobbeschreibung

Proton in Geneva is seeking a Database Platform Engineer to own the administration and reliability of Proton's web-scale MySQL fleet, including a 24/7 on-call rotation.

You will design automation to reduce manual toil, write tooling to manage, monitor, and scale the database platform, and drive performance tuning across hardware, OS, storage, and queries for reliable, scalable services.