Senior MariaDB Platform Engineer - Automation and Scale

United States Digital Space LLC

United States

Remote

USD 130,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior MariaDB/MySQL DBA to scale and tune high-throughput clusters for global expansion. You will drive high-availability, DR/backups, automation, and secure operations while aligning with modern platform initiatives like Kubernetes and IaC.

Collaboration with engineering teams to improve observability and reduce toil is essential. The role emphasizes building automated, auditable workflows, strong security practices, and on-call readiness to support

Qualifications

5+ years operating MariaDB/MySQL in high-volume production environments, including tuning, replication, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters to support global expansion.
Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, and backup approaches through sound design and validated procedures.
Reduce manual work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe database workflows.
Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics and reducing noise.
Enhance database security through robust access controls and disciplined patching/upgrades.
Contribute to modern platform initiatives including containerized environments and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
Partner with service teams to drive performance patterns and database hygiene across engineering.