As a member of the organization you will be dedicated to improving the reliability of our end-to-end database infrastructure. Your work will integrate directly with Twitter's products.
You will be..
- Diving deep into gnarly operational issues; from the software, systems, automation, and process perspectives. You will understand the challenges around integrating disparate infrastructures into a new facility, processes and procedures.
- Working with open-source technologies and the SRE and Database community.
- Actively participate in the vision to move away from high operational cost tasks such as break/fix, cluster migrations, new service buildouts, abuse, etc.
- Contributing to services that can shrink and expand based on demand, self heal, automatically rollout, etc.
You will be expected to..
- Use your expertise to tune and push our databases beyond their normal limit
- Work closely with engineering teams to design, build, and maintain systems and help them decide on database to use, schema design and query tuning
- Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, application and network
- Mentor other SREs and DBE’s on standard methodology for everything from monitoring to troubleshooting complex code and database issues.
- Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company; scope and create automation for deployment, management and visibility of our services.
- Represent the SRE organization in design reviews and operational readiness exercises for new and existing services.
You need to be..
- Experience administering MySQL databases
- Understanding of systems and application design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs.
- Knowledge of shell scripting and/or Python programming.
- Experience and understanding of Linux servers, specifically RHEL/CentOS.
- Minimum 3+ years of handling services in a large scale environment.
- Work well with and be able to influence a myriad of personalities at all levels.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.
- Be adaptable and able to focus on the simplest, most efficient & reliable solutions.
- Track record of successful practical problem solving, excellent written and social communication, and documentation skills.
- B.S. in computer science or similar field.
- Ability to lead technical teams through design and implementation across an organization.
- Experience with open source project like Zookeeper, Percona and other database tools.
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