Lead Database Administrator
Partnerize · Remote - Philadelphia, PA
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**Lead Database Administrator — Partnerize** **Who We Are** Partnerize is on a mission to transform how businesses grow. We build the leading partnership automation platform that helps brands discover, engage, and convert audiences at scale—across affiliate marketing and influencer collaborations. **Job Overview** We’re at a pivotal point in our technical evolution: growing our technical estate, architecting new systems, removing technical debt, and scaling our platform. We’re looking for a technical leader to spearhead this change. As a **Database Engineer**, you’ll act as the principal technical authority for our **database estate**, with end-to-end ownership. You’ll own database architecture and future design solutions, while also being hands-on with **Business As Usual incident management**—including daily operations, backups, and performance tuning. This role is **fully remote** and open to candidates based anywhere in the **UK or the US**. --- ## What You’ll Do - **Primary Operational Ownership:** Hands-on ownership of daily database operations (backups, slow query resolution, performance tuning). - **Infrastructure & Server Support:** Design, secure, and maintain the underlying **Linux** servers for our distributed databases. - **Project Planning & Stakeholder Communication:** Plan and deliver projects like upgrades and migrations; create step-by-step execution plans and communicate business impact to non-technical stakeholders. - **Technical Leadership & Strategy:** Scope incoming work, delegate where appropriate, and serve as the definitive database escalation point. - **Proactive Optimisation & Automation:** Measure and optimize performance; lead automation for database management and monitoring. - **Collaboration & Documentation:** Partner with development and product teams; document procedures, best practices, and troubleshooting steps. - **Delivery & On-Call Support:** Use **Jira** to plan/prioritize/estimate and support critical database issues during and outside business hours. - **Mentorship:** Coach and mentor engineers to elevate DBA knowledge across the company. --- ## Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience - **MySQL + On-Premise Infrastructure:** Advanced MySQL administration in production (on-premise is primary). Strong **Linux** system administration and networking awareness. - **Independence:** Experience as sole/lead owner for large production database infrastructure in a SaaS environment, with accountability for availability and performance. - **High Availability & Replication:** Advanced MySQL replication (e.g., primary-replica, multi-master, GTID). Ability to resolve replication lag, manage failovers, and execute disaster recovery. - **Monitoring:** Understanding of monitoring tools, what to measure, thresholds, and response mechanics. - **Performance Optimisation:** Query tuning, slow query analysis, and advanced schema optimization (normalization, partitioning, query rewrites, indexing). - **Upgrades, Migrations & Scripting:** Minimal-downtime upgrades and complex migrations; automate with **Python and/or Bash** using robust, version-controlled scripts. - **Database Security & Compliance:** SSL/TLS, access control, audit logging, and automated backup encryption. --- ## Desirable Knowledge, Skills & Experience - **Automation, Containers & CI/CD:** **Ansible**, Kubernetes/containerized environments, GitLab pipelines for database-related changes. - **Monitoring & Troubleshooting:** Experience with m
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