Senior Database Engineer (MySQL)

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Hiring Remotely in Texas
Remote
150K-170K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
Consumer Web • Other
The Role
As a Senior Database Engineer, you will manage and optimize MySQL database systems within AWS, ensuring the performance and availability of database services. Your role involves mentoring, leading database architecture design, and automating database management tasks while collaborating with development teams.
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At Angi, we have one simple mission: Get all your home service jobs done well. That’s how we’ve helped over 150 million homeowners care for their homes over the last 25+ years. Today, our network has grown to over 200,000 skilled local pros — and our platform has made it easier than ever to find the right one for your project, from repairs to renovations and everything in between.

About the team:

As a Database Engineer, you’ll join a highly skilled team of Site Reliability, Security, Data Administration, and Production Engineering disciplines using AWS services. Database Engineers are responsible for keeping database systems that support all end-users and other production systems running smoothly 24/7. Database Engineers apply a mix of data engineering, administration, and software development disciplines to automate a range of database management work including provisioning data stores, managing uptime, data integrity, data refresh, disaster recovery, self-healing and alerting, and data reporting. As a Database Engineer, you’ll lead strategic initiatives across the organization and provide hands-on support for all things related to Angi database systems.

What you’ll do:

  • Work closely with the Database and Development teams to ensure database infrastructure standards are followed and architecture patterns are aligned with the requirements
  • Specialize in database management for MySQL in an AWS cloud environment
  • Leverage subject matter and technical expertise to provide leadership, mentoring, and strategic influence across the organization 
  • Lead in designing database architecture, reviewing design, building and troubleshooting database systems, as well as digging deep into the root of an issue and providing solutions
  • Manage multiple projects and tasks including 24/7 on-call participation, prioritization, planning and change management, detailed runbooks, and documentation
  • Provide configuration and maintenance support for production and development environments, automating as much as possible 
  • Assist application developers with query creation, optimization, tuning, and related function 
  • Identify performance trends and opportunities, and deploy proactive corrective measures to minimize downtime 
  • Stay on top of industry and technology trends
  • Work across additional tech stacks as necessary such as Java, Ruby on Rails, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Kafka, S3, and Elasticsearch

Who you are:

  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of experience working within an AWS cloud infrastructure environment
  • Proficiency managing MySQL development and production environments required, other relevant data stores & orchestration tools highly preferred
  • Experience designing complex database ecosystems and leading other engineers through implementation 
  • Development experience in any language or shell command language for scripting
  • Database Engineering/Administration or production infrastructure and operations background 
  • Experience working quickly, efficiently, and with keen attention to detail at a fast-paced company where services are available 24/7/365 
  • Possess a strong understanding that automation is king, and proactively push boundaries in areas like self-healing conditions and alerts 
  • Mentoring experience helping to develop engineering talent is a plus
  • Experience leading through transformational architectural changes is a plus
  • Experience with apps like Chef/Ansible is a plus
  • Experience using the following tools is desirable but not required:
    • AWS RDS, EC2 and orchestration tools
    • Linux experience related to large databases
    • Github, Solarwinds, Nagios, New Relic, Grafana, CloudWatch
    • Cloud Foundation, Ansible, Chef

We value diversity:

We know that the best ideas come from teams where diverse points of view uncover new solutions to hard problems. We welcome and value individuals who bring diverse life experiences, educational backgrounds, cultures, and work experiences.

Compensation & Benefits:

  • The salary band for this position ranges from $150,000 - $170,000, commensurate with experience and performance. Compensation may vary based on factors such as cost of living.
  • This position will be eligible for a competitive year end performance bonus & equity package.
  • Full medical, dental, vision package to fit your needs
  • Flexible vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
  • Pet discount plans & retirement plan with company match (401K)
  • The rare opportunity to work with sharp, motivated teammates solving some of the most unique challenges and changing the world

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Top Skills

Java
MySQL
Ruby
The Company
HQ: Denver, CO
4,900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Angi® is transforming the home services industry, creating an environment for homeowners, service professionals and employees to feel right at “home.” For most home maintenance needs, our platform makes it easier than ever to find a qualified service professional for indoor and outdoor jobs, home renovations (or anything in between!). We are on a mission to become the home for everything home by helping small businesses thrive and providing solutions to financing and booking home jobs with just a few clicks.

Over the last 25 years we have opened our doors to a network of over 200K service professionals and helped over 150 million homeowners love where they live. We believe home is the most important place on earth and are embarking on a journey to redefine how people care for their homes. Angi is an amazing place to build your dream career, join us—we cannot wait to welcome you home!

Why Work With Us

The Sales Team at Angi is built with individuals that have the ability to forge ahead but our superpower lies in our ability to unite as a team. If one person fails, the team fails. With every success, the team celebrates. It is this camaraderie that makes Angi unique.

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