Sr DBA Engineer
About the role
Clover is a leader in the integrated commerce operating system space, serving small and medium businesses worldwide. It supports over 1M merchants globally and processed $350 billion in card transactions in 2025. Clover empowers businesses to accept payments, streamline operations, and drive growth. The Database team within Clover Infrastructure manages and scales SQL deployments in the cloud, heavily dependent on MySQL and NoSQL MongoDB solutions, ensuring seamless performance and reliability. The team explores cutting‑edge cloud technologies to enhance scalability, simplify management, and boost database performance, collaborating closely with developers to co‑design database strategies.
Responsibilities
- Performing schema changes without downtime
- Managing data migrations between shards
- Creating new clusters to support growth
- Resolving performance issues
- Automating routine DBA tasks
Requirements
- Bachelor's in Computer Science; Master's preferred
- 8+ years with MySQL, including replication, sharding, database performance tuning, and backups (both Percona XtraBackup and GCP Snapshort)
- 3+ years with NoSQL preferably MongoDB with Atlas and MongoDB sharding experience
- Cloud-native database experience and DevOps familiarity are essential
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Clear understanding of Network constructs and Network security
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science
- Experience with MongoDB
Skills
- MySQL (replication, sharding, performance tuning, backups)
- Percona XtraBackup, GCP Snapshort
- MongoDB, Atlas, MongoDB sharding
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Cloud‑native databases
- DevOps practices
- Network constructs and network security
Pay
Salary range: $140,000.00 – $210,000.00 (applies to employees in Sunnyvale, California; pay ranges for other states may differ). For incentive‑eligible associates, the successful candidate is eligible for an annual incentive opportunity which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards at the company’s discretion.