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Database Engineer Site Reliability

Hyderabad Area, India, IN - Computer Software, Information Technology and Services, Internet

Description : Salesforce.com is looking to hire Database Engineer to join the Site Reliability team. Working closely with counterparts in the Infrastructure, and R&D organizations, this organization provides a global team of engineers monitoring cloud service availability and ready to swiftly repair any service-impacting issues. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, in a follow-the-sun model, the Site Reliability team keeps the Salesforce cloud and our customers protected.

As a Site Reliability Database Engineer, you will enjoy the challenge of solving complex database performance issues in a large scale OLTP environment. This is an opportunity with a cutting edge team focused on continuous availability via service resiliency, destructive testing and self-healing implementations. The Engineer in this role must be capable of earning the respect of the organization and team alike by demonstrating strong collaboration skills, effective communication, and technical ability. He or she will represent the Site Reliability organization in cross-functional meetings and help drive decisions related to our database platform procedures and practices.



Responsibilities

• Contribute to our continuous database availability, via execution of best practice database backup, restore and recovery procedures.

• Investigate the root cause of problems and subsequently, make and implement recommendations to prevent future occurrences or customer impact.

• Define system monitoring requirements.

• Code line Analysis, predict and improve the systems' reliability.

• Collaborate with and provide detailed feedback to internal stakeholders (R&D, QE and Engineering) on resiliency initiatives.

• Development of destructive testing exercises around core database services.

• Manage systems failure risks: critical change review, validation.

• Identify, design and develop self-healing responses to common core database performance issues.

• Identify and write tools that will help automate common and critical tasks.

• Ability to work a shift designed to provide database engineering support on the weekends.



Required Skills

• BS/BA Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.

• At least 5-8 years experience as an Oracle RDBMS Engineer for mission critical systems.

• At least 1-2 years of experience with HAdoop and HBASE



Desired Skills

• Familiarity with ITIL service operations, service transition and service design principles.

• Comprehension of J2EE application configuration and can read and interpret source code.

• Modern distributed data storage technologies: Hbase/Hadoop HDFS.

• Postgres development/support a plus!

• Large scale distributed database technologies (RIAK/others) a huge plus!



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