Database Engineer

Title: Database Engineer II
Industry: Gaming
Location: Remote - PST Required
Duration: 12 months
Responsibilities:
Database Infrastructure: Design, configure, provision, and maintain cloud-managed database systems to support availability, scalability, and performance across varied workloads.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain database automation pipelines, tools, and infrastructure-as-code solutions using technologies such as Terraform, Jenkins, AWS Lambda, CI/CD, and scripting.
Database Development & Optimization: Support schema design, query performance tuning, stored procedures, scheduled jobs, and other database components for game and service development teams.
Monitoring & Incident Response: Maintain database monitoring, alerting, backups, and failover mechanisms. Participate in on-call rotations to investigate and resolve production issues.
Maintenance & Migrations: Plan, test, and execute database maintenance, infrastructure upgrades, and data migrations in coordination with partner teams to minimize service disruption.
Project Ownership: Independently manage well-defined infrastructure projects spanning multiple weeks or months, including task planning, documentation, and occasional guidance for 1–3 engineers.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with engineering and technical teams to implement database standards, coordinate execution details, and address operational challenges.
Requirements:
4+ years of database administration experience with cloud-deployed MySQL technologies.
4+ years of database administration experience with large-scale relational MySQL databases.
Experience across the full database development lifecycle.
Demonstrated ability to administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and recover MySQL databases.
Experience designing and implementing automated data migrations between systems using replication, code, and business logic.
Experience collaborating with development teams on database schemas, queries, and database design.
Ability to optimize database and SQL query performance.
Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or Bash to solve technical problems.
Experience implementing solutions through automation.
Experience using monitoring and alerting tools to assess database health and performance.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Hands-on experience with AWS RDS or Aurora.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservice application development.
Linux systems administration skills, including database and infrastructure operations.
Programming experience with Go, Python, and/or Java.

Work arrangement
Yes