Database Administrator (MySQL) in a Global Financial Product Offline

A product FinTech company is looking for a DBA (MySQL) for a fully remote position.
 

This is not just another financial product — it’s a high-load system handling real money and millions of transactions 24/7.

The company builds low-latency infrastructure for tier-1 banks across the EU and the US. Their solution is connected to 100+ trading venues, covering over 95% of global FX liquidity.

The product enables:

• Near-zero latency trade execution.
• Real-time operations for algorithmic traders.
• Risk management, pricing, and liquidity aggregation within a single system.

In simple terms: this is the technology that allows banks to execute financial operations in milliseconds, not seconds.

If you're interested in working with high-load, mission-critical systems with zero tolerance for downtime — this could be a great fit.
 

Requirements

• 5 years experience as DBA, at least 3 of them as MySQL DBA.
• Hands-on experience with DBA failover, security, optimization, backup etc.
• Self-managed, can work as a single DBA in the organization.
• Experience with a scripting language - Python, Bash. 
• Issue resolution abilities and good analysis to root cause detection.
• Mandatory - good English, both written and spoken.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with DB design, testing and maintenance.
• Developed in C++, specifically calling mysql from it.
• Financial background: FIX protocol, FX trading.
• Experience with Jira, SVN, Jenkins.

Responsibilities:

• Be a part of rapid development cycles to deliver high-quality products.
• Hands-on Development of infrastructure and maintenance.
• Be responsible for All databases in the organization, including development DBs, Staging DBs and Production DBs.
• Cover Admin aspects like: Security, Failover/replication, Optimization etc.
• Consult in Design aspects like: table structure, indexing, query / stored procedures design etc.
• Incorporate products, work procedures, best practices and architecture.
• Cooperate with dev, QA and devops teams
• Becoming the house expert on Database.
• Train Devops and Support.
  
  Compensation & Benefits:
• 15 working days of vacation + public holidays.
• 10 days of sick leave.
• Medical insurance.
• Equipment provided.
• Annual salary reviews.
  
  If this opportunity looks relevant to your experience, we would be glad to discuss it in more detail.