The Walt Disney Company

Senior Software Engineer - Database Administrator

The Walt Disney Company
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3 months ago
Bristol, CT, USA or New York, NY, USASenior

Base Salary

$149k - $199k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build, deploy, and ensure the availability of database infrastructure operating 24/7/365.
  • Use software development and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure.
  • Help set architectural direction for database platforms and projects.
  • Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
  • Plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right-sizing.
  • Provide database performance tuning, troubleshooting, administration, and technical expertise.
  • Develop engineering and administration standards and create automation and tooling for operational efficiency, reliability, and security.
  • Build scalable, resilient, available, and recoverable infrastructure using infrastructure as code and configuration management.
  • Provide database infrastructure insights through metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Maintain thorough technical documentation and participate in live-event support and on-call rotations.
  • Build relationships with engineering teams and leads and potentially provide oversight to junior team members.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of related work experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS, and Amazon RDS Aurora.
  • BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
  • Fundamental understanding of database internals for at least one relevant database engine.
  • Experience with Agile software development and source control tools including Git, GitLab, or GitHub.
  • Intermediate to advanced expertise in one or more of Python, Java, or Go.
  • Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services.
  • General understanding and experience with Linux, networking, and containers.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
  • Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
  • Ability to carry out assignments with little coaching or guidance.
  • Preferred: experience in database reliability engineering or site reliability engineering.
  • Preferred: experience with production lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Preferred: experience with production cloud infrastructure in Azure and GCP.
  • Preferred: experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Chef.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

  • Full-time employment.
  • The position is listed for Bristol, Connecticut, with an alternate New York, New York location.
  • Medical, financial, and other benefits may be provided depending on the level and position.
  • Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be included in the compensation package.
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