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MariaDB

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

🏢 Enterprise

Enterprise • Open Source • Database

MariaDB is a company that develops and provides an open-source cloud-native relational database solution. Known for its MariaDB Server and MariaDB Enterprise offerings, it delivers high availability, auto-failover capabilities, and supports both transactional and analytical workloads. MariaDB is favored for its flexibility, cost-effectiveness compared to proprietary databases, and support for various data models, including relational and JSON. It is widely used in Linux distributions as a replacement for MySQL and is popular among developers for its open-source innovation and ease of use.

📋 Description

• Perform DBA activities remotely with customers around the world • Automate various DBA tasks • Set up monitoring and other activities on customer servers • Perform periodic health checks and reports on customer systems • Participate in the community by blogging and other social media • Help the MariaDB team build tools and enhancements around MariaDB • Help improve practices and common methodologies for the Remote DBA team • Ability to be on call as needed to guarantee customer SLAs • Manage SkySQL customers across cloud environments • Provide coverage during designated schedule

🎯 Requirements

• Passion for serving customers and solving technical problems • Experience with MariaDB/MySQL and surrounding tools • Knowledge of SQL query writing and optimization • Knowledge of database design, administration, development or architecture • Understanding of various high availability environments and technologies • Very strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills • Tenacity with regard to customer communication & follow-up • Comfortable working remotely (equipment provided) • Excellent written and spoken English communication skills • Experience with some sort of columnar database platform • Previous usage of database proxying technology • Experience in a 24×7 support environment • Proficient with multiple backup utilities (mydumper, MariaDB Backup, Xtrabackup, mysqldump, etc.) • Prior MariaDB, Percona, or MySQL support engineer experience • Previous experience working remotely • Proficient in one or more scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go, etc.) • Sysadmin experience (Linux, Windows, etc.) • Working knowledge of other database systems (Oracle, MS SQL Server, Postgres, RDS/Aurora, MongoDB, etc.) • Contributions to open source software in the MariaDB/MySQL ecosystem • Experience with other MariaDB products such as MaxScale, ColumnStore, Cluster/Galera, Clustrix, etc. • Proficient with virtualization software (Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, etc.) • Experience with cloud offerings • Experience with automation toolsets • Experience with containers (Kubernetes, Docker, etc) • MariaDB/MySQL monitoring software experience • MariaDB and/or MySQL certifications

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days paid annual leave (plus holidays) • Very competitive compensation package • Equipment provided

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