Position: MySQL DBA
MySQL DBA- (Local Candidates Pls) (Career stability bkgd) ( full
time employee role)
Location: Santa Clara

Company:

You’re smart, you’re fast, and most importantly, you always get it done.

We are looking for an experienced, energetic MySQL DBA. The ideal
candidate for this position has worked with high-load,
high-availability, 24×7 environments previously and must be
comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.

We are a startup based in Santa Clara, with a tight-knit team of
engineers. We have an impressive growth opportunity despite a poor
economy. Funded recently by Kleiner Perkins and Gabriel Venture
Partners, We are growing aggressively. With an additional $25m in
backing, our company is already generating a buzz.
Responsibilities

- Maintain our 10+ MySQL databases in production, staging, and
development environments, including installation, configuration,
backup, recovery, upgrades, performance tuning, schema changes, etc.

- Assist operations team with general system administration
responsibilities

- Assist with day-to-day database operation

- Assist with Data Warehouse implementation and maintenance

- Perform MySQL health monitoring and diagnostics

- Estimating project duration, effort, resource load and cost
Requirements

- Very experienced in MySQL replication, optimization /
performance tuning, and backup techniques

- Shell scripting experience (bash, awk, sed, perl, etc.)

- Experience with large data sets (50-100M rows+)

- Ability to work independently as well as ability to work well
with a team of development and operations engineers

- Experience with advanced MySQL replication techniques

- Experience performing backups of large databases with minimal
downtime

- Experience working with MySQL on FreeBSD (7.x)

- Bonus: Familiarity with PCI DSS

- Bonus: System Administration experience

We offer an a superb compensation package with lucrative equity in our
firm. We have such benefits as complimentary breakfast and lunch
daily, Laundry service, and subsidized gym membership. Most
importantly we continue to obtain funding from top tier VC in this
very difficult economic climate. This is your opportunity to realize
both challenge as well as providing a much needed service to the
market.

Contact:

Please send your information to herbnj AT gmail DOT com