Staff Platform Database Reliability Engineer (MySQL)

Location: Toronto, Canada; hybrid with office attendance on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays

Company

hirify.global operates a global advertising supply-side platform that processes high-volume, low-latency programmatic auctions.

What you will do

• Provide strategic technical leadership across data domains and collaborate with product, operations, infrastructure, and platform engineering.
• Deploy, operate, and scale databases across Kubernetes, decentralized cloud, and bare-metal environments.
• Architect relational data structures for performance, scale, continuity, and low-latency operation.
• Develop database administration, monitoring, maintenance, testing, and production release practices with an automation-first approach.
• Implement security, IAM, auditability, and traceability practices for data systems.
• Lead troubleshooting, retrospectives, and root-cause analysis to improve exchange reliability and minimize downtime.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a Database Reliability Engineer, Database Administrator, SRE focused on data systems, or in a similar role.
• Deep expertise with databases including MySQL, MariaDB, Galera, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Aerospike, Redis, StarRocks, and Vertica.
• Experience operating databases at scale in Kubernetes and bare-metal environments.
• Working knowledge of Python, Bash/Shell, Kotlin, Java, and/or Golang.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD tools, database change management, and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
• Demonstrated leadership, mentoring, collaboration, communication, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of streaming and big data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Presto/Trino, or Redis.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, health days, personal obligation days, and flexible work schedules.
• Retirement matching, equity packages, parental leave, and commuter benefits where available.
• Annual well-being allowance, fitness discounts, wellness activities, and mental health support.
• Learning resources, monthly town halls, community-led events, volunteer time off, and donation matching.
• Support for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.