Position Details
About this role
Support and optimize Wikimedia's large-scale relational database systems, primarily MariaDB and MySQL, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure database health and performance
- Deploy and troubleshoot database systems
- Design replication topologies
- Monitor and optimize queries
- Participate in incident response
Technical Overview
Role involves managing MariaDB/MySQL databases, designing replication topologies, troubleshooting performance issues, and automating database workflows in a Linux environment.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a senior database administrator with extensive experience managing MariaDB and MySQL at large scale, including replication, performance tuning, and high availability. They should have strong Linux skills and a background in automating database workflows.
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Deal Breakers
Lack of experience with MariaDB or MySQL, No Linux experience, No experience with large-scale database systems, Unable to work remotely in US
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