Working in a large-scale, mission-critical environment with zero downtime, the Database Engineer provides highly available data services at scale. This role involves building reliable, performant, and secure database infrastructure through automation, and providing new architectures and scalability solutions for growing business needs. You will work onsite on a distributed team, with access to multiple customer environments.
Responsibilities
Maintain scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments
Monitor for problems and diagnose and address those problems as needed
Perform tuning, query optimization, and index tuning
Build database tools and scripts to simplify, automate, and reduce operation toil
Work with development teams and engineers to provide 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.
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
About the Company
SHEIN is a global online fashion and lifestyle retailer, offering SHEIN branded apparel and products from a global network of vendors at affordable prices. Headquartered in Singapore, SHEIN has more than 16,000 employees operating from offices around the world and continues to expand operations globally.
SHEIN is a global online fashion and lifestyle retailer, offering SHEIN branded apparel and products from a global network of vendors, all at affordable prices.
