Lead MySQL Database Engineer

Overview

Lead MySQL Database Engineer (MySQL Lead DBA) responsible for performance, high availability, security, and operational excellence for MySQL clusters and single instances.

What you'll do

• Ensure MySQL database performance, high availability, and security for clusters and single instances.
• Orchestrate upgrades, backups, HA/DR, and provisioning of database instances.
• Design and deploy uniform backup strategies and business continuity plans across MySQL environments.
• Set up and maintain high availability replication (Master-Master/ Master-slave).
• Maintain stable performance through server optimizations and SQL tuning.
• Secure and maintain compliance via OS and database version upgrades.
• Support incident/change processes, documentation, and peer review for production tasks.

What you'll need

• Minimum 8 years of experience managing MySQL.
• Experience with MySQL active/active cluster setup, database upgrades, migrations, and scripting.
• Experience administering MySQL on Linux.
• Experience performing MySQL version upgrades in production with zero or very minimum downtime.
• Experience architecting MySQL environments using Galera Cluster or Percona XtraDB.
• Experience deploying monitoring using at least one of PMM, New Relic, Datadog, Nagios, Grafana, ELK, or AppD.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef).

Nice to have

• Experience working with PCI standards.
• Deep experience with SQL (stored procedures, functions, triggers, batch jobs) and reporting/analytics.
• Experience managing PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and/or Oracle.
• Experience with NoSQL and data engineering technologies (e.g., Kafka, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, ETL).
• Experience with data analytics and Business intelligence.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Company work culture described as in-office (physically co-located).