Position: Lead Database Engineer (MySQL)
Company: Alcor
Category: SQL
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

Who you are:
● You have 7+ years of experience in operations with a heavy focus in database operations (MySQL preferably).
● You are an effective communicator capable of working and collaborating with a global team.
● You’re passionate about the quality and integrity of software experiences.
● You have experience in Linux, Networking, Relational and/or Non-Relational Databases
● You have experience with configuration management tools, like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc.
● You are familiar with infrastructure-as-code tools, be it Terraform, AWS Cloudformation or Google Deployment manager.
● You have no fear of learning and working with new database systems, both relational and non-relational (some other database technologies we use are PostgreSQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch).

**What you have done: **
● 7+ years experience operating, performance tuning, and troubleshooting large Linux + MySQL environments
● Designed and have an understanding of high availability and clustering options for MySQL
● Developed an understanding of MySQL internals, including the query planner, crash recovery, and the InnoDB/XtraDB storage engine
● Learned database theory and best practices for query optimization, and index design
● Worked on tuning and understanding systems performance outside the database (including disk, network, and CPU)
● Used common monitoring tools such as Nagios, New Relic, Graphite, and Prometheus
● Written automation and tooling in at least one of these languages: Bash, Ruby, or Python
● Worked with configuration management tools like Puppet or Chef
● Benchmarked and evaluated the performance of various permutations of hardware, software, and cloud providers benchmarking and performance evaluation of various permutations of hardware and software

**What you will do: **
● A highly experienced engineer with a curiosity for operations, or an operations engineer that wants to work closely with software engineers to help glue infrastructure and software together.
● Ownership and delivery of strategic infrastructure projects with a heavy collaboration with infrastructure counterparts in Australia and the United States.
● Apply database engineering while leveraging infrastructure automation tools to build, maintain, monitor and operate a complex, performant and scalable infrastructure.
● Work in multiple programming languages using the best tool for the job. We primarily work with Python, PHP, Go and Ruby.
● Use your deep understanding of web and cloud technologies to lead complex projects from specification through to implementation.
● Handle, communicate and direct resources under high-pressure situations.
● Communicate successes or topics of interest both within the team and across the wider engineering organization via blogging, presentations and brown bags.
● Lead by example and mentor your peers.
● Participate in on-call rotation.