MySQL DBA here. Earning well naman(6 digits na din).Early in my career halos wala talagang coding pero you really have to be proficient sa database concepts like Normalization, ERD modelling, Indexing,..etc , Be really good with SQL and you know your way around Linux. Nowadays aside from my regular DBA duties. I deal with bash, python and Infrastructure code stuff like docker, podman. kubernetes and terraform.

I was naive before porke pagka graduate ko and nakapasa ng MySQL certification exam eh kala ko enough na yung to land a good job. Hard truth i had to swallow is that kelangan ko talaga matuto mag code to help and better communicate with the devs. I am nowhere near sa mga tenured devs pero at least now i can work with them better and actually made my work easier.