Senior Cloud MySQL Engineer (Remote)

Toku Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Toku Ltd is seeking a senior engineer to own the operational health and improvement of production MySQL databases hosted on AWS RDS. You will work hands-on in incident response, automate safer database workflows, and partner with software engineers supporting a distributed SaaS platform.

The role emphasizes strong ownership, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration to reduce operational risk and improve data reliability across globally distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Experience operating production MySQL databases, including AWS RDS.
• Troubleshoot production problems and drive lasting improvements.
• Automate database/workflow tasks to reduce manual effort.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and communicate findings.

Responsibilities

• Monitor availability and reliability of production MySQL databases.
• Lead incident response and root cause investigations.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks.
• Improve database change processes with safer audits.
• Collaborate with software engineers to diagnose issues.
• Report progress to engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Production MySQL

AWS RDS

Incident response

Automation

Linux/Unix

Observability

Tools

Datadog

AWS Performance Insights

Aurora

Job description

Toku Ltd is seeking a senior engineer to own the operational health and improvement of production MySQL databases hosted on AWS RDS. You will work hands-on in incident response, automate safer database workflows, and partner with software engineers supporting a distributed SaaS platform.

The role emphasizes strong ownership, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration to reduce operational risk and improve data reliability across globally distributed systems.