Responsibilities
- Maintaining scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments.
- Monitoring for problems and diagnosing and addressing those problems as needed.
- Performance tuning, query optimization, and index tuning.
- Building database tools and scripts to simplify, automate, to reduce operation toil.
- Responsible for working with development teams and engineers to provide a database design guidance.
- Handle Database upgrades and migrations, while monitoring and improving database performance.
- Triage and solve database issues, drive incidents until resolution and employ measures to prevent recurrence.
- Do capacity planning benchmarking on various databases.
- Provide assessments of data integrity, high availability, data security, and privacy.
- Provide 24x7 escalated on-call support on a pager rotation.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Fluency in Mandarin
- 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.
Benefits
- Bonus eligible
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs)
- Health Savings Account with Employer Funding
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent care)
- Company-Paid Basic Life/AD&D insurance
- Company-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Voluntary Benefit Offerings (Voluntary Life/AD&D, Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, and Accident)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Business Travel Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Savings Plan with discretionary company match and access to a financial advisor
- Vacation, paid holidays, floating holiday and sick days
- Employee discounts
- Free weekly catered lunch
- Dog-friendly office (available at select locations)
- Free gym access (available at select locations)
- Free swag giveaways
- Annual Holiday Party
- Invitations to pop-ups and other company events
- Complimentary daily office snacks and beverages
Work Arrangement
On-site — San Diego
Additional Information
- Onsite work required
- 24x7 escalated on-call support on a pager rotation
