2 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement capabilities for a 10,000+ shard Vitess/MySQL/MyRocks fleet across regions.
- Work in Go and C++ across Vitess, MySQL, MyRocks, and RocksDB, using Python for automation, testing, and analysis.
- Improve query serving, replication, automated failover, online schema changes, VReplication, resharding, backup and restore, upgrades, compaction, capacity management, and workload isolation.
- Diagnose production issues involving query execution, transactions, locking, replication, storage engines, filesystems, operating systems, runtimes, and hardware.
- Build tested AI-assisted operational tooling that correlates metrics, logs, traces, topology, code paths, and recent changes to accelerate diagnosis and support auditable remediation.
- Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation and convert recurring incidents into durable platform improvements.
- Lead technical designs and incident investigations, mentor engineers, and contribute fixes and features upstream to relevant open-source projects.
Requirements
- Significant experience designing, building, or operating distributed databases or production infrastructure at scale.
- Deep expertise in Vitess or a comparable sharded SQL system, MySQL internals, or MyRocks/RocksDB or another LSM-based storage engine.
- Strong production software engineering skills in Go and/or C++, including work with large, mature systems codebases.
- Experience debugging complex behavior through profiling, tracing, thread and process analysis, source-code inspection, operating-system telemetry, and controlled reproduction.
- Experience making high-risk infrastructure changes safely through testing, staged rollout, observability, fault containment, and rollback.
- Clear technical judgment and the ability to communicate designs, trade-offs, incidents, and operational risks.
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: accepted upstream contributions to Vitess, MySQL, MyRocks, RocksDB, or another database or storage project.
- Preferred: experience operating database fleets at thousands-of-shards scale.
Benefits
- The role is based in London.
- The position includes participation in a sustainable on-call rotation.
- The role offers opportunities to contribute to open-source database and storage projects.
About Bloomberg
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