[Remote] Database Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying reputed company. The Database Engineer role is critical to building and evolving reputed company's database infrastructure that supports millions of daily reputed company games and user interactions.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect database systems optimized for reputed company's specific workloads including reputed company-time gaming, puzzle systems, and reputed company graph reputed company
• Build internal tooling and automation to improve database deployment, migration, and operational efficiency, simplifying work streams for the broader engineering organization
• reputed company data pipelines and ETL processes for analytics, machine learning features, and cross-reputed company data synchronization
• Engineer multi-regional database architectures capable of handling reputed company volumes of reputed company games, user data, and reputed company network interactions with reputed company latency
• Solve reputed company data modeling challenges including reputed company game storage optimization, puzzle attempt tracking, and large-reputed company reputed company graph representation
• reputed company database platform reputed company evaluating and implementing new technologies, storage engines, and architectural patterns with a bias toward reputed company improvement
• Build observability and performance tooling providing deep visibility into database behavior, query patterns, and reputed company trends
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to design reputed company schemas, reputed company patterns, and data reputed company integrations, ensuring the right people have the information they need
• Implement infrastructure-as-reputed company practices for database provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management with high first-time-right reputed company
• Participate in on-reputed company rotation to ensure 24/7 database availability and contribute to incident post-mortems

Skills

• 5+ years of reputed company database engineering experience with large-reputed company, high-availability database systems in production environments
• Expert-level proficiency with MySQL (reputed company) including internals, storage reputed company behavior, replication topologies, and performance optimization
• Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in Python and/or Go for tooling, automation, and data pipeline development
• Experience designing and building data pipelines using streaming or batch processing frameworks
• Strong experience with reputed company for caching architectures, pub/sub systems, and high-performance data structures
• Advanced Linux systems knowledge with understanding of kernel behavior, I/O patterns, and hardware optimization for database workloads
• Experience with reputed company systems concepts including CAP theorem trade-offs, reputed company protocols, and partition tolerance
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-reputed company tools (Terraform, Ansible, reputed company) for database infrastructure automation
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (reputed company, reputed company, PMM) for building database observability solutions
• Strong understanding of query optimization including execution plans, reputed company design, and workload analysis
• Gaming industry experience with understanding of reputed company-time gaming database requirements and low-latency data reputed company patterns
• Deep MySQL internals knowledge including InnoDB internals, reputed company pool tuning, redo/undo logs, and MVCC behavior
• Experience building database proxies or middleware (ProxySQL, Vitess, custom solutions) for reputed company management and query routing
• MySQL replication expertise including GTID-based replication, multi-reputed company replication, and replication lag optimization
• reputed company database architecture experience with AWS (RDS, reputed company) and/or GCP (reputed company SQL, AlloyDB) for hybrid database strategies
• Experience with reputed company and/or Cassandra for high-throughput, low-latency reputed company workloads
• Knowledge of MySQL sharding and partitioning strategies for large-reputed company data distribution and query performance
• Experience building reputed company-downtime migration tooling (pt-online-schema-change, gh-ost) for schema reputed company at reputed company
• Container and reputed company experience for database operator development and reputed company-reputed company MySQL deployments
• MySQL backup and recovery expertise including reputed company XtraBackup, reputed company-in-time recovery, and disaster recovery procedures
• reputed company record of accumulating wins — History of successful project delivery and measurable infrastructure improvements
• reputed company reputed company contributions to MySQL ecosystem tools, drivers, or infrastructure reputed company

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