Database Engineer
$86,400–$138,000 year
On-siteSan Diego, California, United States
San Diego, California, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$86,400–$138,000 yearBachelors DegreeEnterprise
Full TimeBachelors DegreeEnterprise
Job Summary
Maintain scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments while monitoring for problems and diagnosing issues as needed. Perform performance tuning, query optimization, and index tuning, then build database tools and scripts to automate operations and reduce toil. Collaborate with development teams to provide database design guidance, handle upgrades and migrations, and triage incidents until resolution. Conduct capacity planning benchmarking and assess data integrity, high availability, and security. Provide 24x7 escalated on-call support via pager rotation.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline
- MySQL specific database experience
- Experience using Azure or any other cloud provider
- A solid understanding of distributed/replicated database topologies
- Systematic problem-solving approach, combined with a sense of ownership and drive
- Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance and scalability
- Good understanding of Linux system, ability to deploy open-source software independently
- Proficient in more than one scripting language (golang/python/shell, etc.)
- A strong desire to be challenged by problems of scale and complexity to make our service better for our customers
- The ability to remain calm in the face of extreme crises
- Good verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work effectively with geographically remote teams
- Experience managing MySQL / Percona Server 8 at scale
- Experience managing distributed database, like Clickhouse, Hbase, MongoDB and Starrocks etc
- Experience with Percona tools, Orchestrator, Ghost etc
Desired Qualifications
- Fluency in Mandarin
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