Principal Database Engineer
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Job Summary
Bringing extensive experience and technical expertise, the full-time remote Principal Database Engineer will assess and enhance production database systems, define architectural goals, and mentor engineering teams to ensure high availability and performance of database services.
Key responsibilities
- Review and assess database estate against business needs, identifying areas for investment and simplification
- Define target architecture and measurable goals, collaborating with engineering leads to prioritize and execute the roadmap
- Investigate and resolve complex database issues while improving fleet reliability through observability and disaster recovery procedures
Required qualifications
- 8+ years of experience operating and evolving production database estates at scale
- Deep hands-on expertise with MariaDB, including performance tuning and incident diagnosis
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Rust, or similar languages
- Solid understanding of high availability, replication, and distributed database failure modes
- Proficiency in low-level Linux, Kernel, storage, and networking fundamentals
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