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Dev.Pro

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2011

🤝 B2B

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

B2B • Fintech • SaaS

Dev. Pro is a software development partner that supports technology companies with custom outsourced software development services. With over 13 years of experience, a team of more than 900 experts, and operations in over 50 countries, Dev. Pro provides a comprehensive range of services including cloud development, DevOps, software testing and QA, system integration, and application security. The company caters to a wide array of industries such as digital commerce, fintech, hospitality, and healthcare by delivering tailored software development experiences. Dev. Pro emphasizes quality, innovation, and a transparent collaboration process to accelerate growth for ambitious startups and Fortune 500 enterprises alike, ensuring successful outcomes through a well-balanced and efficient team approach.

📋 Description

• Lead a production MySQL migration, owning strategy and execution in a live, high-scale environment • Work on a business-critical platform with 100k users, where your decisions directly impact performance, reliability, and user experience • Collaborate across engineering, DevOps, QA, and architecture teams, solving complex, real-world migration challenges • Analyze database schemas, queries, replication, and compatibility risks before and during migration • Review database interaction patterns across Java microservices, including JDBC, connection pooling, and transaction behavior • Design Cloud SQL migration strategies to minimize business disruption • Optimize database performance by analyzing slow queries, indexing, execution plans, locking, and storage behavior • Validate backup, recovery, replication, failover, and disaster recovery processes for production readiness • Define database monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and health checks • Strengthen database security, access controls, encryption, patching, and compliance practices • Automate database operations using scripting and infrastructure tooling • Create migration runbooks, playbooks, and technical documentation

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on MySQL Database Administration experience in production environments • Proven experience with major MySQL version upgrades or large-scale database migrations • Strong expertise in MySQL internals (indexing, query optimization, partitioning, replication, and transaction behavior) • Strong SQL skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex performance issues • Hands-on experience administering Linux or other Unix-like OS, with scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages • Experience with managed cloud database services (Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, or equivalent) • Experience with production database operations (backup/restore, high availability, disaster recovery, failover) • Ability to plan and execute database changes with minimal downtime • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across technical teams • Strong communication skills and ability to lead technical discussions.

🏖️ Benefits

• 30 paid days off per year — take them whenever you want for rest days, holidays, or personal time • 5 paid sick days, up to 60 days of medical leave, and 6 paid days off per year for major family events like weddings, funerals, or the birth of a child • Partially covered health insurance after the probation, plus a wellness bonus for gym memberships, sports nutrition, and similar needs after 6 months • Grow your skills with English lessons, online training, conferences, and the option to explore new career paths