Senior Database Engineer (Remote) - MySQL Lead

Partnerize; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off Policy – Take the休

Comprehensive health benefits

401k plan with match

Job summary

Partnerize is seeking a highly skilled Database Engineer to own daily database operations, backups, performance tuning, and server infrastructure across on‑premise and cloud environments. You will lead upgrades, migrations, and set best practices while mentoring peers within the Technical Operations team.

This fully remote role welcomes candidates in the UK or the US. Ideal candidates will bring deep MySQL expertise, strong Linux/admin skills, and a track record of high availability

Qualifications

• Advanced administration of MySQL in production environments (on-premise or cloud).
• Experience as sole/lead owner of large production DB infrastructure in a SaaS environment.
• Strong Linux system administration and networking awareness.

Responsibilities

• Take hands-on ownership of daily database operations (backup mgmt., slow query handling, performance tuning).
• Design, secure and maintain underlying Linux servers for databases.
• Plan and deliver database upgrades/migrations with clear stakeholder communication.
• Mentor engineers and elevate team knowledge in database design and migration strategies.
• Provide on-call support for critical database issues.

Skills

MySQL

Linux administration

Networking awareness

Replication & HA

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Jira/Confluence

Education

Experience leading production DB infra in SaaS

Tools

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitLab

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Partnerize is seeking a highly skilled Database Engineer to own daily database operations, backups, performance tuning, and server infrastructure across on‑premise and cloud environments. You will lead upgrades, migrations, and set best practices while mentoring peers within the Technical Operations team.

This fully remote role welcomes candidates in the UK or the US. Ideal candidates will bring deep MySQL expertise, strong Linux/admin skills, and a track record of high availability