Database Administrator (MySQL) in a Financial Product

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 of 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 for 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, and 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 on design aspects like table structure, indexing, query/stored procedure design, etc.
• Incorporate products, work procedures, best practices, and architecture.
• Cooperate with dev, QA, and DevOps teams.
• Becoming the house expert on the 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.