Job details
Pay
- $134,133 – $208,254 a year
Shift and schedule
- On call
Full job description
Summary
We’re hiring a Staff Database Administrator to support and protect the sum of all human knowledge, shared by Wikipedia and its sister projects.Much of that knowledge is stored using MariaDB, and therefore we’re looking for someone with a strong expertise in designing, operating and optimizing relational (SQL) database infrastructure at large scale (MariaDB and other MySQL derivatives in particular), to support and scale the technology behind Wikipedia and its sister projects—some of the most visited websites on the internet.
You are responsible for:
- Ensure the health and performance of Wikimedia’s production relational database systems, and the structural integrity of its data.
- Deploy, maintain and troubleshoot relational database systems in production, development and staging environments
- Design, implement, manage and automate (multi-site) replication topologies
- Consult in the design of database schemas and queries, and implement/oversee database schema changes in production