Senior MySQL DBA: Global, Multi-Tenant, High-Performance

Photon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is seeking an experienced MySQL Database Administrator to support global commerce workloads and multi-tenant environments. You will manage MySQL databases, help modernize architecture, and ensure reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.

In this role you will monitor health and capacity, troubleshoot production incidents, optimize SQL, and collaborate with engineering using Jira and GitHub.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of DB administration or related experience.
• Hands-on MySQL experience.
• Strong SQL query analysis and tuning skills.
• Experience with large-scale multi-tenant databases.
• Experience with database modernization at scale.
• Familiarity with MongoDB.
• Experience with Datadog and Grafana monitoring.
• Knowledge of secure coding and DB security.

Responsibilities

• Manage MySQL environments for large-scale, multi-tenant apps.
• Drive modernization, scalability, performance improvements.
• Monitor health, availability, capacity, and performance in production.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and incidents.
• Perform SQL performance analysis and optimization.
• Work with engineering to improve reliability and ops.
• Set up monitoring/alerting with Datadog and Grafana.
• Collaborate with teams to implement safe DB changes.
• Follow secure development and DB practices.
• Use Jira and GitHub in delivery lifecycle.

Skills

MySQL DBA

SQL

Performance tuning

Monitoring

Incident resolution

Problem solving

Jira/GitHub

MongoDB knowledge

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Jira

GitHub

Job description

Photon is seeking an experienced MySQL Database Administrator to support global commerce workloads and multi-tenant environments. You will manage MySQL databases, help modernize architecture, and ensure reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.

In this role you will monitor health and capacity, troubleshoot production incidents, optimize SQL, and collaborate with engineering using Jira and GitHub.