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\nSummary\n\nWikipedia's goal is to provide every single person with the sum of all human knowledge and MariaDB is how we store it. You will be joining a small mission driven team of talented highly experienced operations engineers. As one of the most highly trafficked sites, there is literally nowhere else serving as many page views per engineer. As a DBA with Storage Engineering expertise at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will be responsible for the availability and performance of our database infrastructure. You should be able to; optimize queries, automate anything, benchmark and test new builds of MariaDB and MySQL, plan for disaster recovery, and implement backup systems. This is a unique opportunity to have a huge impact. Our work is important, and it’s seen by hundreds of millions of people.\n\nDescription\n\n\n* Implementation and maintenance of database and other storage servers in production, staging environments, and Wikimedia Labs\n\n* Database performance tuning, high availability, backups, and general optimization.\n\n* Providing guidance and support to application developers for schema design and schema changes, code review, SQL query tuning\n\n* Handling (Debian) package maintenance, patching and building, upstream bug identification and resolution.\n\n* Expansion of the monitoring and alerting infrastructure\n\n* Multi-datacenter design, capacity and infrastructure planning\n\n* Response to system outages, monitoring key metrics\n\n* General infrastructure operations and system administration, including server installations and configuration management\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Admin and Database Admin jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $90,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
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