Senior Database Engineer

As a Database Engineer, you’ll join a highly skilled team of Site Reliability, Security, Data Administration, and Production Engineering disciplines using AWS services. Database Engineers are responsible for keeping database systems that support all end-users and other production systems running smoothly 24/7. Database Engineers apply a mix of data engineering, administration, and software development disciplines to automate a range of database management work including provisioning data stores, managing uptime, data integrity, data refresh, disaster recovery, self-healing and alerting, and data reporting. As a Database Engineer, you’ll lead strategic initiatives across the organization and provide hands-on support for all things related to Angi database systems.

Work closely with the Database and Development teams to ensure database infrastructure standards are followed and architecture patterns are aligned with the requirements
Specialize in database management for MySQL in an AWS cloud environment
Leverage subject matter and technical expertise to provide leadership, mentoring, and strategic influence across the organization
Lead in designing database architecture, reviewing design, building and troubleshooting database systems, as well as digging deep into the root of an issue and providing solutions
Manage multiple projects and tasks including 24/7 on-call participation, prioritization, planning and change management, detailed runbooks, and documentation
Provide configuration and maintenance support for production and development environments, automating as much as possible
Assist application developers with query creation, optimization, tuning, and related function
Identify performance trends and opportunities, and deploy proactive corrective measures to minimize downtime
Stay on top of industry and technology trends
Work across additional tech stacks as necessary such as Java, Ruby on Rails, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Kafka, S3, and Elasticsearch

BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of experience working within an AWS cloud infrastructure environment
Proficiency managing MySQL development and production environments required, other relevant data stores orchestration tools highly preferred
Experience working with MSSQL highly preferred but not required
Experience designing complex database ecosystems and leading other engineers through implementation
Development experience in any language or shell command language for scripting
Database Engineering/Administration or production infrastructure and operations background
Experience working quickly, efficiently, and with keen attention to detail at a fast-paced company where services are available 24/7/365
Possess a strong understanding that automation is king, and proactively push boundaries in areas like self-healing conditions and alerts
Mentoring experience helping to develop engineering talent is a plus
Experience leading through transformational architectural changes is a plus
Experience with apps like Chef/Ansible is a plus
Experience using the following tools is desirable but not required:
AWS RDS, EC2 and orchestration tools
Linux experience related to large databases
Github, Solarwinds, Nagios, New Relic, Grafana, CloudWatch
Cloud Foundation, Ansible, Chef