Engineer / Senior Engineer, Database Administration (DBA)

Garena; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Garena is seeking a Database Administrator in Singapore responsible for the administration of MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and other data services. You will support development teams and optimize existing database designs for performance.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and at least 2 years of relevant experience. Familiarity with scripting languages and Linux systems is essential. Join us to work on highly available data persistence systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of relevant full-time working experience in database administration.
• In-depth understanding of database design and large-scale distributed storage systems.
• Familiar with Linux systems and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Administer and manage MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, focusing on capacity planning and optimizations.
• Support development and production teams in database designs and deployments.
• Review and optimize database designs for better stability and performance.

Skills

MySQL

Redis

MongoDB

SQL

Shell scripting

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Job Description

• Responsible for MySQL, Redis, MongoDB and other data services’ administration and management (capacity planning, installation, backup, recovery, monitoring, optimisations, troubleshooting, etc).
• Support development and production teams in database designs, environment deployment and related implementations.
• Review and optimize existing database designs and configurations to achieve better stability and performance.
• Research and develop new technologies and approaches for building highly available data persistence systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant full‑time working experience in database administration or related roles; database DevOps experience is a plus.
• In‐depth understanding of database design and experience in supporting large‑scale distributed storage systems, such as MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc.
• Familiar with SQL and relational database theory and knowledge.
• Familiar with scripting languages (at least one of Shell or Python).
• Familiar with Linux systems and has good system troubleshooting skills.