Senior MySQL Database Engineer - Remote

Partnerize; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off Policy

Enhanced parental leave

Regular company events and activities

Robust Health & Welfare Benefits

401k Plan – 4% employee match

Enhanced Wellness Program including E…

Job summary

Partnerize is seeking a seasoned Database Engineer to own daily operations, design scalable database infrastructure, and drive high availability across on‑prem and cloud environments. You will partner with developers and IT to ensure performance, security, and reliability while mentoring peers.

You will lead upgrades, migrations and automation initiatives, with a focus on delivering robust, low‑downtime changes and clear stakeholder communication. Remote work is supported in the US/UK.

Qualifications

• Advanced administration of MySQL in production environments, on‑prem or cloud.
• Experience as lead owner for large production database infrastructure in a SaaS environment.
• Ability to configure and troubleshoot complex MySQL replication and manage failovers.

Responsibilities

• Take hands‑on ownership of daily database operations, including backups and performance tuning.
• Design, secure and maintain underlying Linux servers for large distributed databases.
• Plan and deliver large upgrades and migrations with minimal downtime.
• Lead database design, optimisation and migration strategies.
• Automate management and monitoring of the database platform infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development, product and IT teams; document procedures and best practices.
• Provide on‑call support for critical database issues.

Skills

MySQL admin

Linux admin

Network troubleshooting

SaaS operations

Replication expertise

Query tuning

Automation scripting

Leadership

Tools

Python

Bash

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Prometheus

Job description

Partnerize is seeking a seasoned Database Engineer to own daily operations, design scalable database infrastructure, and drive high availability across on‑prem and cloud environments. You will partner with developers and IT to ensure performance, security, and reliability while mentoring peers.

You will lead upgrades, migrations and automation initiatives, with a focus on delivering robust, low‑downtime changes and clear stakeholder communication. Remote work is supported in the US/UK.