Careers
Work on the hard MySQL problems, across many systems.
Engineering here
Consulting at QueryKings means seeing more production MySQL in a year than most engineers see in a decade — different workloads, different failure modes, different scales. The work is hands-on and client-facing: you read the plans, design the topology, run the cutover, and explain it all to the client's team in plain language.
We look for senior, US-based engineers with real production database history: people who can read EXPLAIN output the way others read prose, who have run replication in anger, and who write clearly — because half of consulting is making the complicated legible.
We hire deliberately and only when there is client demand to support it. If the description below sounds like you, we would like to hear from you through the contact form even when no opening is listed — a short note about the gnarliest database problem you have solved says more than a resume.
Depth over breadth
One technology family, mastered — the career value of being the engineer who actually knows how InnoDB behaves.
Autonomy with backup
You own your engagements end to end, with senior peers one message away when the problem gets strange.
Writing culture
Findings, runbooks, and tutorials are first-class work products here, not afterthoughts.
Sane hours, honest billing
Hourly client billing keeps scope honest — for clients and for the engineers doing the work.
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Interested in future openings? Introduce yourself and tell us about a database problem you are proud of solving.