6+ years of experience as a Database Reliability Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer / Software Engineer
Experience managing high-scale MySQL deployments running in the cloud (preferred AWS running on EC2)
Hands-on experience with Python, Ansible, and bash scripting
Familiarity with Percona MySQL tooling (Orchestrator, XtraBackup, PMM)
Familiarity with Python ORMs like SQLAlchemy
Experience identifying and mitigating MySQL performance bottlenecks like long-running queries, database locking, and suboptimal query design
Excellent communication skills and comfortable interacting with engineers from other teams for incident resolution and performance regression deep dives
High engineering skills and a passion about setting the bar higher
WOULD BE A PLUS:
Knowledge or experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC), enabling the automation of provisioning and managing infrastructure resources
Familiarity with NoSQL databases, providing versatility in managing different types of data storage systems
