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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Production MySQL Database Engineer - **Company:** Fishbowl Solutions - **Location:** Orem, UT, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Centers, Data Recovery, Software Debugging, Disaster Recovery, Failover, MySQL, Network Architecture, Network Planning and Design, Runbook, Software Deployment, SQL Databases, Strategies of Testing, Computer Network Operations, Concurrency, Low Latency, Data Management, Database Replication - **Published:** August 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/my-sql-database-engineer-orem-ut--64b1de85-231a-4698-9f34-ca3341a46e75 ## About the Role 1. Deep hands on experience running MySQL in production at scale 2. Strong practical knowledge of MySQL Galera, including failure modes and recovery 3. Experience operating ProxySQL in front of high traffic application fleets 4. Proven ability to manage multi data center replication and active active traffic patterns 5. Comfort being the sole owner of a critical production system 6. Strong debugging skills across MySQL, networking, and application interaction layers 7. Experience working with containerized backends and modern infrastructure stacks 8. Ability to design systems, not just maintain them This role is suited for someone who prefers ownership, autonomy, and solving hard production problems without heavy, Architectural Services, Automation, Business Operations, Cloud Computing, Concurrency, Customer Support/Service, Data Management, Data Recovery, Database Programming, Database Replication, Disaster Recovery, Failover, Healthcare, Identify Issues, Investment Capital, Machine Tool, Manufacturing Management, MySQL, Network Architecture/Engineering, Network Design, Network Operations Center, On Call, Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), Problem Solving Skills, Production Systems, Replication and Remote Mirroring, SQL Databases, Test Strategy, Warehousing ## Description We are looking for a senior Production MySQL Database Engineer to own and operate our database layer end to end. This is a solo role and requires someone who is comfortable making architectural decisions, executing them, and supporting the system in production. Our environment runs a multi data center, multi cluster MySQL Galera topology with ProxySQL in front of thousands of containerized application instances. All data centers are active and serve live tenant traffic. Each tenant has a defined writable location and data locality must be enforced globally while maintaining cross cluster and cross data center replication. This is a net new production deployment of an existing application. You will work closely with infrastructure engineers during design and rollout, then take full ownership of database operations once live. Responsibilities: 1. Design, deploy, and operate a production MySQL Galera environment across multiple data centers 2. Own ProxySQL configuration, routing logic, and failover behavior at scale 3. Implement and manage global data locality and writable instance selection per tenant 4. Ensure replication health within clusters, across clusters, and across data centers 5. Define backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies and test them regularly 6. Tune MySQL for high concurrency, low latency, and predictable performance 7. Build tooling and automation for monitoring, alerting, failover, and routine operations 8. Troubleshoot complex production issues involving replication, consistency, latency, and failover 9. Partner with infrastructure engineers on network design, storage, orchestration, and observability 10. 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