Sr MySQL Database Engineer
Portland, OR or San Francisco, CA
We’re looking for a highly-experienced Senior MySQL Database Administrator to join our Site Engineering team. This is a highly technical role that requires extensive MySQL experience, including thorough knowledge of MySQL internals. We’re running MySQL at world-class scale and expecting it to perform, sometimes at the limit, so deep understanding and an interest in tuning are critical. Our MySQL systems write over 200 billion application performance metrics a day to disk.
You’ll work as part of a small engineering team, and will focus on supporting the MySQL database eco-system that powers our APM, Servers, and Platform applications, and you will play a critical role in advising software engineering teams on scalability and performance best practices throughout the development process.
We’re a SaaS company who provide an analytics platform to clients, and so our data is our business. You’ll need excellent communication skills and a drive to improve scalability and performance across our MySQL tier.
As a part of the Site Engineering team you’ll be working with the engineers who build and support everything from the network to the deployment infrastructure in a fast-paced startup environment where things change rapidly, and where we’re constantly increasing our scale. We believe in automation for repeatability and efficiency and you’ll need reasonable skill in a major dynamic language.
You should be a highly motivated self-starter who can hit the ground running, a team player who knows how to share with others and learn from them, too.
Some responsibilities include:
- Analyzing our existing tier on an ongoing basis and making recommendations about scalability and high availability changes.
- Identifying tuning settings, query changes necessary to improve performance, availability, and reliability.
- Supporting development teams in building features that perform at scale.
- Working with the Site Engineering team to deliver new MySQL services in an automated, scalable way.
- Assisting in the administration, management, and monitoring of all MySQL database systems.
- Developing tools to improve repeatability and efficiency.
- Administering the database backup tier and tooling.
Skills and experience needed to do the job:
- 4+ years real world experience with MySQL.
- Must possess a detailed understanding of internals, specifically InnoDB and alternative storage engines, high volume replication and partitioning.
- Experience with MySQL 5.5-5.6, Percona XtraDB, MariaDB or other modern MySQL variants.
- Experience with Percona XtraBackup.
- Highly developed problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Proficiency in Ruby, Perl, or Python for database tooling. Go or Java also advantageous.
A little about us:
New Relic is a software analytics company that, on behalf of our customers, makes sense of billions of metrics about millions of applications, all in real time. Our comprehensive SaaS-based solution for web and mobile applications consolidates the performance monitoring data into a single, powerful interface. Our 90,000 customers use New Relic every day to optimize more than three million applications.
New Relic is a San Francisco Best Places to Work award winner, an Oregon “Top Workplace” award winner, named a leader in the Gartner’s 2013 “Magic Quadrant” for APM companies, a Top 100 OnDemand Company, Best of SaaS (THINKStrategies), Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing (CRN); 10 Cloud Management Companies to Watch (NetworkWorld) – the list of accolades goes on. More important than all of that: we provide challenging work, opportunities to learn, high quality teammates, a standard-setting product, and a company on the move.
Our offices are in the vibrant tech communities of San Francisco, California and Portland, Oregon. Both offices offer easy commute access, a plethora of good eats and great coffee, and a great quality of life. We provide competitive compensation, stock options, and big-company benefits (medical, dental, vision, etc)—all while maintaining the energy, agility, and fun of a start-up. We can help with the relocation and are open to H1-B transfers.
New Relic is most decidedly an equal opportunity employer. We eagerly seek applicants of diverse background and hire without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, individuals with disabilities, age, sexual orientation, protected veterans, or any other characteristic protected by law. Note: Our stewardship of the data of many thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.
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