[Hiring] Database Administrator @12Go Asia

Role Description

Are you prepared to join the R&D team at 12Go and help us build the leading online travel platform, providing seamless booking experiences for travelers worldwide? In our R&D department, you will get to work on groundbreaking solutions that reshape how people explore the world, using a modern tech stack and following top industry standards to ensure security, scalability, and a reliable travel experience. You will thrive in a collaborative culture where passionate colleagues love sharing ideas, and your work will have a real impact on our users' travel adventures.

We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator to own and operate our multi-engine database infrastructure across self-hosted and AWS RDS environments. You will be the primary expert for database reliability, performance, migrations, and disaster recovery. This is a hands-on engineering role - not a management position.

Join us in crafting this exciting journey, where your contribution will be key to our success!

Responsibilities

• Replication & High Availability
  • Own MariaDB replication topology;
  • Design and execute GTID migration plan across self-hosted and RDS instances;
  • Monitor and maintain replica lag across all replicas;
  • Define and test failover and switchover runbooks.
• Performance & Reliability
  • Continuously audit slow query logs across all three engines;
  • Tune engine parameters for workload characteristics;
  • Set up and own PMM or equivalent observability stack for DB metrics.
• Schema Migrations & Release Process
  • Define and enforce safe schema migration procedures (online DDL, pt-online-schema-change);
  • Integrate migration steps into CI/CD pipeline; enforce no-deploy-before-migration policy;
  • Maintain migration history and rollback procedures for every schema change.
• Backup & Disaster Recovery
  • Implement and verify backup strategy: logical + physical, with tested restore procedures;
  • Maintain point-in-time recovery capability for all critical databases.
• Security & Compliance
  • Manage database users, roles, and access policies (principle of least privilege);
  • Audit and rotate credentials on schedule; integrate with secrets management;
  • Ensure data-at-rest and in-transit encryption is in place and documented.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing
  • Write and maintain runbooks for every database: failover, restore, migration, scaling;
  • Conduct internal knowledge transfer sessions with the DevOps team;
  • Participate in on-call rotation for database-related incidents.

Qualifications

• 3+ years: replication, GTID, binlog, InnoDB tuning, Mariabackup, Percona Toolkit.
• Has done position → GTID migration in production.
• Knows RDS limitations vs self-hosted; parameter groups, snapshots.
• Can read EXPLAIN, identify bad indexes, fix slow queries independently.
• Designed and tested restore procedures; knows xtrabackup / mariabackup.
• Used pt-osc or gh-ost; understands locking implications.
• Set up Prometheus + Grafana or PMM for database metrics.
• Comfortable with bash, systemd, log analysis.
• Runs DB in containers for dev / staging; understands volume management.

Nice to Have

• ClickHouse: MergeTree, partitions, materialized views, query profiling.
• MongoDB: Replica sets.
• Terraform / IaC: Managing RDS instances via Terraform.
• Python or Go: Automation scripts, custom monitoring exporters.

Benefits

• Engaging work on a product that enables millions of travelers to book their trips daily;
• Full-time remote working - 5 days week, 8 hours per day;
• Development opportunities (budget for self-paced learning, global training workshops, online English language classes, e-learning platforms);
• Internal growth and internal mobility opportunities;
• Competitive annual leave, sick leave, and public holidays;
• Annual company offsite in Thailand.

Application Process

What should I do to dive into 12Go company culture? Apply! Update your CV and get ready to experience the best interview flow with our top talents. We can’t wait to see you and share this awesome adventure together!