Posted on: 09/01/2026
What Youll Do :
- Build, scale, and administer a large fleet of database clusters (MySQL, Postgres, Vitess, CloudSQL, BigTable, MongoDB, to name a few) spread over multiple data centres with a focus on performance, scale, and high availability.
- Monitor and troubleshoot critical performance bottlenecks for databases before it causes downtime.
- Review and assess the impact of database schema design, topology changes prior to their implementation.
- Ensure that databases are secured, maintained, backed up, and highly available.
- Review stress testing results and provide recommendations to development teams.
- Automate anomaly detection to surface databases with failures, IOPS, deadlocks, and other failure reasons.
- Automate management tasks, streamline processes, and perform standard administrative functions with Python-based tooling.
- Build monitoring and observability systems with Prometheus, Grafana.
- Drive SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for database reliability and uptime.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Kubernetes.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines for schema and infrastructure automation with Jenkins and GitLab CI.
- Collaborate with DevOps, data engineering, and analytics teams to deliver resilient data solutions.
Your Qualifications :
- 4+ Years of relevant industry work experience.
- Understanding of MySQLs (8.0+) underlying storage engines like InnoDB.
- Knowledge of Performance and scalability issues with MySQL and how to overcome them with expertise in replication, indexing, and partitioning.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and optimization skills.
- Strong experience with MySQL HA using Orchestrator/ProxySQL/Consul/Pacemaker.
- Good understanding of monitoring requirements with deep knowledge of observability stacks like Prometheus and Grafana.
- Experience in administering Linux-based systems.
- Experience with configuration management like Puppet/Ansible/Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational databases.
- Strong multi-cloud experience (GCP, Azure).
- Strong automation experience with at least 1 language, Python/Ruby/Perl/Go and SQL scripting.
- Analytical skills necessary to perform troubleshooting of errors and performance issues on a large array of MySQL clusters spread over multiple data centres.
- Self-taught and enthused to grow your skill set with new technologies as the industry continues to evolve.
- Commitment to security, compliance, and operational excellence.
Good To Have:
- Experience in other distributed systems like Redis, Memcached, Postgres, MongoDB.
- Experience in managing a large fleet of database servers.
- Knowledge of HA and scalability issues with PostgreSQL.
- Knowledge about cloud providers (Google Cloud and/or Azure).
Benefits:
- Competitive salaries.
- Medical insurance and healthcare benefits for you and your family.
- Fully paid premiums for life insurance.
- Flexible hours and PTO.
- Mental wellness platform subscription.
- Gym reimbursement.
- Childcare reimbursement.
- Group term life insurance.
Commitment To Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion:
At Egnyte, we celebrate our unique differences and thrive on our diversity for our employees, our products, our customers, our investors, and our communities.
Our global Egnyte Employee Communities (EECs) support representation and inclusion across our diverse workplace.
Egnyters are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work and to appreciate the many differences that collectively make Egnyte a higher-performing company and a great place to be.
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Egnyte will not allow any form of retaliation against employees who raise issues of equal employment opportunity.
If employees feel they have been subjected to any such retaliation, they should contact [email protected] .
To ensure the workplace is free of artificial barriers, violation of this policy including any improper retaliatory conduct will lead to discipline, up to and including discharge.
All employees must cooperate with all investigations conducted pursuant to this policy.
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