Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Box - Database Operations Engineer

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Database Operations Engineer

Los Altos, CA
Technical Operations
Full-Time

We are looking for a Senior Database Operation Engineer with vast experience in database engineering and administration. Deep involvement and experience with MySQL and Big Data systems is a must. This engineer will work closely with engineering teams responsible for Big Data and MySQL related applications and also be involved in architecture and database infrastructure discussions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Develop strategies to scale out MySQL deployment in multiple DCs.
    • Setup and support MySQL master/master, master/slaves replication servers.
    • Design and implement tools to automate database operation and monitoring.
    • Plans and executes tests of fault tolerance capabilities, including: backup/recovery, replication, cluster failover and disaster recovery
    • Problem analysis, solution determination, modification, and documentation.
    • Measure and analyze MySQL and HBase performance and implement changes to improve performance.
    • Perform database load testing and benchmarking.
    • Plans and participates in software development from inception to completion.
    • 24X7 on-call rotation

QUALIFICATIONS

    • Must have Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science, Computer Science or similar areas or equivalent work experience
    • Must have 5+ years of MySQL and Linux experience in an intensive web-based, multi-threading applications on multi-core architecture environment.
    • Must have expert level knowledge in MySQL 5x, complete understanding of different engines and related utilities such as Maatkit/Percona Toolkit, mysqladmin etc.
    • Must have experience with MySQL monitoring tools (i.e., nagios, cacti, splunk, OpenTSDB, etc.)
    • Must have expertise in backup/recovery/fail-over methods and best practices.
    • Must have at least 2+ years of HBase engineering / Administration experience.
    • Experience in scripting languages, such as PHP, Shell, Perl, Python, etc.
    • Experience with Tungsten an HBase replication is a big plus

About Box: Box provides a secure way to share content and improve collaboration on any device. Desktop, tablet or mobile. From huge corporations to mom and pop stores, Box believes technology should never limit anything you do. Businesses of any size can be more productive, inventive and powerful on Box. The company is well funded by top VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners. Box is proud to be on Forbes’ list of America’s Most Promising Companies, is used in 240,000 businesses - including 99% of the Fortune 500 – and is the go-to product of 27 million people.

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