Database Platform Engineer at Proton

Department: CC - Infrastructure - Database

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Compensation

€50,000 – €76,000/yr

Setup: On-site
Location: Geneva, Geneva · Paris, Île-de-France
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Jul 13, 2026

Description

Proton is hiring a MySQL Platform Engineer to own the administration, reliability, automation, performance tuning, upgrades, and long-term strategy of its web-scale MySQL fleet accessed through ProxySQL. The role requires production MySQL, ProxySQL, Linux, automation, observability, and bare-metal or on-premise database experience, with distributed-database and Puppet experience preferred. It offers health coverage, retirement options, leave, stock options, and a Paris salary range of 50,000€ to 76,000€.

Required Skills

MySQL
ProxySQL
Ansible
Puppet
Prometheus
Grafana
Linux
Python
Go
Bash
Query optimization
Performance tuning
Schema design
CockroachDB
YugabyteDB

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 3+ years of hands-on experience operating highly available MySQL databases at scale in production
Experience with ProxySQL and Linux in production environments
Experience reducing operational toil through scripting or custom tooling using Python, Go, Bash, or equivalent
Experience running databases on bare-metal or on-premise infrastructure
Preferred Qualifications: Hands-on experience with distributed databases such as CockroachDB or YugabyteDB
Experience with Puppet or comparable configuration management systems
Prior exposure to high-traffic, multi-tenant ProxySQL deployments
Translation Company Name: Proton