About This Role
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.
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
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.
