Sr DBA Engineer

Clover; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive

Equity awards

Job summary

Fiserv's Clover team in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior DBA Engineer to advance our cloud-based MySQL and MongoDB deployments. You will work closely with developers to design scalable database strategies, ensure high availability, and drive performance in a growing sharded environment.

You will manage schema changes without downtime, data migrations between shards, and new clusters, while automating routine DBA tasks and contributing to DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science; Master's preferred.
• 8+ years with MySQL, including replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backups (Percona XtraBackup and GCP Snapshots).
• 3+ years with NoSQL, preferably MongoDB with Atlas and sharding experience.
• Cloud-native database experience and DevOps familiarity are essential.

Responsibilities

• Performing schema changes without downtime
• Managing data migrations between shards
• Creating new clusters to support growth
• Resolving performance issues
• Automating routine DBA tasks

Skills

MySQL sharding

DB performance tuning

MongoDB Atlas

Docker & Kubernetes

DevOps / Cloud

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Percona XtraBackup

GCP Snapshots

MongoDB Atlas

Job description

Calling all innovators - find your future at Fiserv.

We're Fiserv, a global leader in Fintech and payments, and we move money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants and consumers to one another millions of times a day - quickly, reliably, and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card, pay through a mobile app, or withdraw money from the bank, we're involved. If you want to make an impact on a global scale, come make a difference at Fiserv.

Job Title

Sr DBA Engineer

Clover is a leader in the integrated commerce operating system space, serving small and medium businesses worldwide. You’ve likely seen us in your favorite restaurants and shops—we support over 1M merchants globally and processed $350 billion in card transactions in 2025. Clover empowers businesses to not only accept payments but also streamline operations and drive growth. Be part of the innovation and transformation at Clover—join us today!

What does a successful Senior DBA Engineer do at Clover?

The Database team within Clover Infrastructure is responsible for managing and scaling SQL deployments in the cloud heavily dependent on MySQL Databases and NoSQL MongoDB solutions, ensuring seamless performance and reliability.

With a forward-looking approach, we explore cutting-edge cloud technologies to enhance scalability, simplify management, and boost database performance. Collaborating closely with developers, we co-design database strategies tailored to specific requirements. Beyond maintaining performance and the technology stack, our role is pivotal in shaping the future of databases.

What You Will Do

As a Senior DBA Engineer, your role is critical in ensuring high reliability and performance for our applications while supporting the development of new features both in the RDBMS and NoSQL world. In a growing sharded database environment, responsibilities include:

• Performing schema changes without downtime
• Managing data migrations between shards
• Creating new clusters to support growth
• Resolving performance issues
• Automating routine DBA tasks

What You Will Need To Have

• Bachelor's in Computer Science; Master's preferred.
• 8+ years with MySQL, including replication, sharding, database performance tuning, and backups (both Percona XtraBackup and GCP Snapshort).
• 3+ years with NoSQL preferably MongoDB with Atlas and MongoDB sharding experience
• Cloud-native database experience and DevOps familiarity are essential.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Clear understanding of Network constructs and Network security.

What Would Be Great To Have

• Master's degree in Computer Science
• Experience with MongoDB

Salary Range

$140,000.00 - $210,000.00

These pay ranges apply to employees in Sunnyvale, California. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.

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For incentive eligible associates, the successful candidate is eligible for an annual incentive opportunity which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards in the Company’s sole discretion.

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