Senior Database Engineer (MySQL) Denver, CO - Remote

$150,000 - $170,000/Yr

Angie's List - Denver, CO

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Denver, CO

10,001+ employees

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

As a Senior Database Engineer at Angi, you will play a crucial role in maintaining and optimizing database systems that support various production environments. This position involves collaborating with development teams, leading strategic initiatives, and ensuring the smooth operation of MySQL databases within an AWS cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for automating database management tasks, troubleshooting issues, and mentoring other engineers, all while contributing to a culture of diversity and innovation.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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 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

Nice-to-haves

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary band ranging from $150,000 - $170,000
• Year-end performance bonus & equity package
• Full medical, dental, vision package
• Flexible vacation policy
• Pet discount plans
• Retirement plan with company match (401K)