Title: Database Engineer II
REQ #: 6303
Industry: Gaming
Location: Remote - PST Preferred
Duration: 12 months
PAY: $72.09–$93.64/HR W2
Job Description:
Database Engineering services are focused on administration, maintaining, and assisting with scaling database capabilities to support the scale and performance requirements of Live Service games and shared services. The engagement provides technical support and database administration services across shared persistent data store technologies.
As a Database Engineering Contractor, you will support a global scope of databases servicing various services and games. You will assist in implementing and maintaining established database standards to help ensure service databases remain manageable and operational. You will collaborate and coordinate with engineers and technical teams on execution details for persistent storage solutions.
This engagement is suited for individuals experienced in executing high-impact technical tasks, delivering iterative solutions to database operational challenges, and balancing practical technical outcomes with service requirements.
Responsibilities
1. Database Infrastructure Management: Design, configure, provision, and maintain cloud-managed database systems, ensuring high uptime, scalability, and performance across varied game workloads and dynamic environments.
2. Automation & IaC Enhancement: Build, extend, and maintain database automation pipelines, tools, and infrastructure-as-code (using Terraform, Jenkins, AWS Lambda, CI/CD, and scripting) for automated provisioning, backups, maintenance, and schema changes.
3. Schema, Queries & Stored Procedures: Execute schema designs, query performance tuning, and updates to database components (e.g., stored procedures, scheduled jobs) to support game and service development teams.
4. Monitoring, Observability & Incident Response: Maintain database-level monitoring, alerting, and backup/failover mechanisms. Participate in on-call rotations to investigate and resolve routine and emergent production issues.
5. Maintenance & Migrations Coordination: Plan, test, and execute routine database maintenance, infrastructure upgrades, and data migrations in close coordination with partner teams to minimize service disruption.
6. Project Delivery & Ownership: Independently own and deliver well-scoped, multi-week to multi-month infrastructure projects—breaking down tasks, writing clear documentation, and occasionally guiding 1–3 engineers on execution goals.
Required Qualifications
· 4+ years database administration experience working with cloud based deployed MySQL technologies
· 4+ years database administration experience working with large scale Relational MySQL databases
· Experience with full database development life cycle
· Proven ability to administrate, maintain, and recover MySQL databases
· Proven ability to design and implement automated data migrations using replication, code and business logic between data systems
· Proven ability to work with development teams and service code on schema, query and database design
· Ability to optimize Database and SQL Query performance
· Ability to solve problems with programming scripts (python, bash etc)
· Ability to implement solutions through automation
· Proven experience using monitoring and alerting tools to determine health of your database ecosystem.
· Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
Desired Qualifications
· Hands on experience with AWS RDS or Aurora
· Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and microservice application development
· Linux systems administration skills (operate the database and the infrastructure)
