Job Description
Own the architecture, availability, and performance of our Aurora MySQL clusters.
Design and maintain strategies for obfuscating and replicating production databases to pre-production environments at scale.
Troubleshoot slow queries, hot tables, lock contention, and other complex performance issues.
Work with engineers to review, improve, or rewrite inefficient queries generated by Eloquent/Laravel.
Design schema and data modeling strategies that can evolve without risking downtime.
Weigh in on foreign key usage and implement sane policies that balance safety with maintainability.
Monitor and tune backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes.
Provide guidance on Redis usage and data patterns where applicable.
Help influence the engineering roadmap, even when it means others need to adapt workflows.
Participate in on-call rotation for major database incidents.
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