Lead Database Administrator (Remote EST - United States)
Partnerize · Remote - Philadelphia, PA
About this role
**Who We Are** Partnerize is on a mission to transform how businesses grow. We’ve built the leading partnership automation platform that helps brands discover, engage, and convert audiences at scale—across affiliate marketing, influencer collaborations, and more. **Why Join Us** You’ll find a culture of collaboration, innovation, and respect, guided by core values. Partnerize offers a competitive salary, generous benefits, and a flexible work environment. --- **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 operate with a high degree of autonomy as the principal technical authority for our **database estate**, taking end-to-end ownership. You’ll be a strategic anchor within the Technical Operations team, interfacing with business, development, and IT. A fundamental part of the role is **hands-on Business As Usual incident management**—you’ll handle daily operations, backups, and performance tuning alongside project delivery. --- **What You’ll Do** - **Primary Operational Ownership:** Hands-on ownership of daily database operations (backup management, resolving slow queries, performance tuning). - **Infrastructure & Server Support:** Design, secure, and maintain the underlying **Linux servers** that support our distributed databases. - **Project Planning & Stakeholder Communication:** Plan and deliver upgrades/migrations; map step-by-step execution plans and clearly communicate business impact to non-technical stakeholders. - **Technical Leadership & Strategy:** Scope incoming work, delegate where appropriate, and act 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; improve database testability in deployments; document procedures, best practices, and troubleshooting steps. - **Delivery & Out-of-Hours/On-Call Support:** Use **Jira** to plan/prioritize/estimate; support critical database issues during and outside normal hours. - **Mentorship:** Coach and mentor engineers to elevate overall DBA knowledge across the company. --- **Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience** - **MySQL + On-Premise Infrastructure:** Advanced MySQL administration in production (on-prem and/or cloud). Strong Linux and networking awareness to support, secure, and maintain underlying servers. - **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:** Understand monitoring tools/patterns—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, user
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