Senior Database Engineer (MySQL)New Illinois - Remote

$150,000 - $170,000/Yr

Angie's List

Full-time - Senior

Remote

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 be responsible for maintaining and optimizing MySQL database systems within an AWS cloud environment. This role involves leading strategic initiatives, providing hands-on support, and ensuring the database infrastructure meets the needs of the organization. You will work closely with development teams, manage multiple projects, and implement automation to enhance database performance and reliability.

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

Nice-to-haves

• 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

Benefits

• Salary band ranging from $150,000 - $170,000, commensurate with experience and performance
• Eligibility for a competitive year-end performance bonus & equity package
• Full medical, dental, vision package to fit your needs
• Flexible vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
• Pet discount plans & retirement plan with company match (401K)