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Senior Engineer - Core MySQL, Database PlatformRemote - Americas
Shopify · Posted today
Own the MySQL fleet and regional failover machinery that decides how Shopify runs across regions, where every shop's data layer depends on your work.
Senior Engineer - Core MySQL, Database Platform Remote - Americas At Shopify, the Database Platform group owns the data layer that every shop on the platform runs on. The Core MySQL team sits at the centre of that: we own MySQL itself along with everything around it — the backup systems, the routing layer, the proxies and the regional resiliency and failover machinery that decides how Shopify runs across regions and where traffic goes. These are critical services in the most literal sense.
This is a role for someone who is interested in solving hard problems at world class scale. This role has equal parts software engineering and operational level work. You’ll be building and maintaining purpose built software to operate our database fleet as well as implementing performance, cost and resiliency improvements.
What you'll be doing
- Building and maintaining custom software and automation that lets the team operate MySQL at Shopify's scale
- Operating the fleet directly: virtual machine management, configuration and performance tuning for MySQL, capacity work, and resiliency testing.
- Owning the software powering the connection management, the backups and the failover machinery behind Shopify's database platform.
- Planning and executing changes to critical systems where correctness matters more than speed, and being the person who thought through what could go wrong.
- Participating in a shared on-call rotation covering Shopify's database platform
- Growing with the platform as the data layer evolves.
Qualifications
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