Full-Time Staff Database Administrator
Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a remote Full-Time Staff Database Administrator. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, India, Brazil, Australia, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Poland based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Wikimedia Foundation
Job Title
Staff Database Administrator
Posted
Career Level
Full-Time
Career Level
Experienced
Locations Accepted
USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, India, Brazil, Australia, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Poland
Salary
YEAR $134133 - $208254
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Job Details
We’re hiring a Staff Database Administrator to support Wikipedia and its sister projects. We are looking for someone with expertise in designing, operating and optimizing relational (SQL) database infrastructure at large scale (MariaDB and other MySQL derivatives in particular).
- Ensure the health and performance of Wikimedia’s production relational database systems.
- Deploy, maintain and troubleshoot relational database systems.
- Design, implement, manage and automate replication topologies.
- Consult in the design of database schemas and queries.
- Monitor, debug and optimize database query performance.
- Capacity and infrastructure planning.
- Contribute to the automation of common database management workflows.
- Maintain relationships with the MariaDB upstream projects/organizations.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation shared across the team.
- Advanced level of experience with MariaDB or MySQL database administration.
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and query/schema optimization.
- Experience with debugging query performance and schema design.
- Experience with high traffic and highly available website architectures and operations.
- Knowledge of Linux and IO/data storage concepts.
- 6+ years experience in a hands-on DBA role as part of a team.
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What is the last date for applying to the job?
The deadline to apply for Full-Time Staff Database Administrator at Wikimedia Foundation is
18th of October 2025
. We consider jobs older than one month to have expired.
Which countries are accepted for this remote job?
This job accepts [
USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, India, Brazil, Australia, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Poland
] applicants. .
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