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Senior Database Reliability Engineer
| Company | Credit Karma |
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| Location | Oakland, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $263219 – $263219 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Experience with database administration, primarily using MySQL.
- Experience working in production environments at scale.
- Writing scripts in Python, Bash, Ruby, or Perl (preferably Python).
- Experience with a configuration management system like Puppet, Chef, or Salt (we use Salt).
- Proficient in communicating technical details using English, both verbally and written.
- Experience with GCP and/or AWS.
- Desire to learn and explore new technologies.
Responsibilities
- MySQL database administration, management and engineering using industry and community standards/tools.
- Enhance developer velocity by leading the design and development of automation and self-service tooling.
- Preventing data loss using replication technologies and backups.
- Improving and developing our toolset for MySQL management systems.
- Implementing and improving our distributed database architecture in both Postgres and MySQL.
- Improving recovery time through automation and processes.
- Improving deployment processes through automation.
- Part of the on-call team and rotation, helping resolve critical issues as quickly as possible.
- Provide support and knowhow to developers for GCP persistence tools, primarily Spanner.
- Working with the team on all the above listed points and delegate appropriately.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with other RDBs and key-value stores.
- Being a team player and thriving in a tightly knitted team.
