Principal MariaDB Database Engineer

Shape MariaDB architecture and reliability for high-demand financial services as a Principal Database Engineer working remotely from Canada. Guide complex infrastructure improvements.

This senior individual contributor role focuses on database architecture, operational resilience, and long-term evolution. You will assess production environments, define technical direction, and deliver improvements across performance, scalability, and reliability. The work combines MariaDB expertise, automation, migrations, incident response, and cross-team influence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess database infrastructure against business and production performance needs
• Define target architecture, objectives, and prioritized technical roadmaps
• Lead migrations, scaling decisions, benchmarking, and cutover planning
• Diagnose complex MariaDB performance issues and production failures
• Build automation for provisioning, upgrades, failover, and maintenance

Requirements:

• At least 8 years operating large-scale production database environments
• Deep hands-on MariaDB and InnoDB expertise
• Understanding of replication, failure modes, and consistency trade-offs
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Rust, or comparable
• Knowledge of Linux, storage, networking, and operating system internals

Apply deep MariaDB, architecture, automation, and reliability expertise to critical financial services infrastructure from Canada.