Senior Database Engineer

5+ years of DBA/DBE experience managing production-grade relational databases at large scale. Deep MySQL/Aurora internals knowledge. Strong experience with AWS-native database solutions and data tooling. Familiarity with Laravel or PHP-based ORM query behavior. Experience managing and monitoring databases with tens or hundreds of billions of rows. Pragmatic and persuasive communicator. Strong Bash scripting and automation mindset. Bonus: Experience with Redis at scale.

Own the architecture, availability, and performance of Aurora MySQL clusters. Design and maintain strategies for obfuscating and replicating production databases. Troubleshoot slow queries, hot tables, and other performance issues. Review, improve, or rewrite inefficient queries. Design schema and data modeling strategies. Weigh in on foreign key usage and implement policies. Monitor and tune backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes. Provide guidance on Redis usage. Influence the engineering roadmap. Participate in on-call rotation for database incidents.