Database Engineer

Job Title: Database Engineer
Reports to: Head of Technical Operations
Job Location: Los Angeles, CA - Remote
About SHEIN Technology
SHEIN is an international B2C fast fashion e-commerce platform. The company mainly focuses on women's wear, but it also offers men's apparel, children's clothes, accessories, shoes, bags and other fashion items. SHEIN mainly targets America, Australia, Europe and the Middle East along with other consumer markets. The brand was founded in October 2008, and since then it has upheld the philosophy that "everyone can enjoy the beauty of fashion." Its business covers more than 220 countries and regions around the world.
Position Summary
We are looking for a Database Engineer with experience working in large-scale mission-critical environments with zero downtime. The SHEIN DB team is a mix of DBA/SRE/DBRE oriented folks whose overarching goal is to provide highly available data services at scale. They strive to build an extremely reliable, performant, and secure database infrastructure through the skillful use of automation. This team is responsible for providing new architectures and scalability solutions to ever-growing business and data processing needs.
Sure, everyone has their favorites, but understanding database fundamentals and how the properties of different database systems interact with applications and operating systems is a key to our success. You will be working from home on a distributed team, with access to multiple customer environments, potentially with people and computers around the world, we are looking for U.S. based applicant at this time.
Responsibilities:

• Maintaining scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments (MySQL in Clouds like AWS, GCP).
• Monitoring for problems and diagnosing and addressing those problems as needed.
• Performance tuning, query optimization, and index tuning.
• Building database tools and scripts to simplify, automate, to reduce operation toil.
• Responsible for working with development teams and engineers to provide a database design guidance.
• Handle Database upgrades and migrations, while monitoring and improving database performance.
• Triage and solve database issues, drive incidents until resolution and employ measures to prevent recurrence.
• Do capacity planning benchmarking on various databases.
• Provide assessments of data integrity, high availability, data security, and privacy.
• Provide 24x7 escalated on-call support on a pager rotation.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline.
• More than 4 years of MySQL specific database experience.
• 4+ years of experience using AWS/GCP or any other cloud provider.
• A solid understanding of distributed/replicated database topologies.
• Experience working in AWS (EC2 / EBS / S3 Snapshots / Aurora / RDS).
• Systematic problem-solving approach, combined with a sense of ownership and drive.
• Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance and scalability.
• Deep understanding of Linux system, ability to deploy open-source software independently.
• Proficient in more than one scripting language (shell/perl/python, etc.), familiar with python development language is preferred.
• A strong desire to be challenged by problems of scale and complexity to make our service better for our customers.
• The ability to remain calm in the face of extreme crises.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work effectively with geographically remote teams.

Good to have

• 5+ years of experience managing MySQL / Percona Server 5.7 / 8, Aurora at scale.
• Experience with Atlassian tools, such as Confluence and Jira.

SHEIN Technology is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse workplace environment.
Pay Band: $123,600.00 - $197,750.00 annually.