Remote Senior Engineer – Core MySQL Platform

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopify is looking for a Senior Engineer to join the Core MySQL, Database Platform team. You will build and maintain software to operate MySQL at massive scale, manage fleet operations, and own backups and failover systems.

You’ll work on critical changes with a strong emphasis on correctness and resiliency, while contributing to on-call reliability. The role blends software engineering with operational responsibilities, requiring production ownership, strong debugging skills, and comfort with

Qualifications

• Hands-on ownership of stateful, large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven software engineering ability with real code, not just scripts.
• Experience operating critical infrastructure and on-call rotations.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP) and distributed tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain custom software to operate MySQL at Shopify scale.
• Directly operate the fleet: VM management, configuration, and performance tuning.
• Own software powering connection management, backups, and failover.
• Plan and execute changes where correctness matters more than speed.

Skills

Large-scale distributed systems

Software engineering

On-call experience

AI tooling usage

Tools

GCP

Zookeeper

MySQL internals

Job description

Shopify is looking for a Senior Engineer to join the Core MySQL, Database Platform team. You will build and maintain software to operate MySQL at massive scale, manage fleet operations, and own backups and failover systems.

You’ll work on critical changes with a strong emphasis on correctness and resiliency, while contributing to on-call reliability. The role blends software engineering with operational responsibilities, requiring production ownership, strong debugging skills, and comfort with