Principal Database Engineer

Payward, Inc.

📍 Argentina, Brazil, United Arab Emirates On-Site ⏳ 16h ago
AI assistant

Job Description

You will assess the database estate, define target architecture and measurable goals, and execute the roadmap hands-on with the team. You will investigate MariaDB failures and performance limits, improve reliability and disaster recovery, build database automation, advise application teams, mentor engineers and take part in on-call.

Responsibilities

  • Review the database estate for reliability, scale, cost and complexity
  • Define target architecture and a prioritised roadmap
  • Execute migrations and scaling work with benchmarks and rollback plans
  • Investigate MariaDB failures and performance limits
  • Improve observability, backup, restore and disaster recovery
  • Build production software for provisioning, upgrades and maintenance
  • Advise application teams on schemas, transactions and queries
  • Mentor engineers
  • Participate in on-call and incident response

Requirements

  • 8+ years operating