MySQL Database Administrator

SKELAR — is a Ukrainian venture builder that creates international tech businesses. Together with co-founders, we assemble strong teams to succeed in global markets.

We are currently looking for a MySQL DBA/Database Engineer to join our strong Software Development team (10+FTE) and work with our high-load products (up to 100k operations/sec).

Strategic challenges and objectives:

• Database health monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Work with massive amounts of data.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Collaborate with engineers, DBAs, and DevOps teams on technical issues.
• Provide support to developers and QAs as required.
• Maintain system monitoring of the database servers. Slow query reporting.
• Participate in database restructuring and management.
• Work on schema design and data modeling.

Technical requirements:

• Experience with administering MySQL server.
• Basic performance, query, and index optimization.
• Confident knowledge of MySQL backup solutions.
• Good understanding of monitoring requirements.
• Good understanding of replication principles.
• Comfortable with collaborative tools, such as Slack, wikis, Subversion, and basic ticket tracking systems (YouTrack, Jira).

Non-technical requirements:

• Fast learner and creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
• Effective team member with a high level of motivation and ability to work with little supervision.
• Dynamic self-starter with high attention to detail, highly responsible and reliable.

Desirable skills:

• Previous work experience with Python, Golang, Shell, or other programming languages.
• Previous work experience with relational databases, such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL DBs: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.
• Good understanding of load balancers, DNS, networking, and/or client-side drivers.

By choosing us you get:

• Opportunity to work with a multi-million audience.
• Career growth and professional development with various internal training and seminars, access to an extensive book library, chance to participate in key IT industry events worldwide (attending the conferences).
• Work in a great team. We pay special attention to the recruitment and development of talent. All the members of our team are young, active, and highly motivated for creative problem-solving.
• Employee wellness program, which includes running sessions, football, basketball, and other sports. The cost of sports activities is covered by the company. In-house doctor support is also available on demand.
• Health insurance is available for all employees.

Let's build the next big everything together