Thursday 31 July 2014

Database Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA


Database Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA


Database Engineer

Location

San Francisco

Description

We’re looking for a Database Engineer who has awesome experience working with databases, systems, and programming to help manage issues and optimize performance. You’ll know the ins and outs of our primary datastore in MySQL, providing support and fine tuning as needed. You should feel equally as confident in your coding abilities since you’ll work closely with our software engineers in automating scripts.
Responsibilities:
  • Develop and iterate on frameworks to automate scripts that will execute processes consistently and at scale
  • Understand our database to its core and optimize its access and performance
  • Improve MySQL automation and performance to prevent work on the command line
  • Work closely with operations and engineering teams as necessary
  • Own the technical direction and execution of MySQL at Pinterest
Requirements:
  • 7+ years of experience in a database engineering role
  • 5+ years of experience writing production level Python, PHP or Perl
  • Experience with covering indexes and sharding mechanisms
  • Proficiency in Linux
  • MySQL a plus

https://about.pinterest.com/en/careers/database-engineer_15400


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