Database Administrator / DBA EzRez Software

Who You Are

You are passionate about databases and data problems. You relish the opportunity to tune databases, optimize queries, design schemas, and write reports. You've never encountered a query that's fast enough. Big Data does not scare you. You're comfortable working with highly-available, highly-transacted Production databases, as well as data analytics.

You've worked with a variety of open source databases, and you're comfortable with or learning PostgreSQL. You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. You're not tied to any technology, and you love to keep up-to-date on new trends.


Job Description

You will be part of a fun, fast-paced and highly collaborative team that delivers new platform functionality, stability and performance improvements. Working with our PostgreSQL databases, you will work closely with our Software Engineering team to implement new database features, design new schemas, write queries, and review data definition updates. You will work with our Analytics and Business teams to optimize queries, and create custom reports. You will work on IT initiatives and database administration, including backups, scripting and processing data, data warehousing, redundancy, replication and high availability strategies. You will work with other members of the Engineering and IT teams to maintain greater than 99.99% platform uptime and to ensure queries are running optimally.


Job Responsibilities

Manage, maintain, and troubleshoot databases and data models that support business, web, and data warehouse applications, ensuring all services are operational 24x7x365
Achieve zero downtime releases through reviewing and optimizing database schema migrations
Work with team members to tune the PostgreSQL databases to meet new functional and performance releases and resolve complex database problems through research, analysis and expertise
Perform database monitoring, maintenance, reorganizations, resource management, schema management, and capacity planning
Work with the Analytics team to create and optimize queries and reports



Job Qualifications

Strong desire to learn about RDMS, and large data sets
Strong UNIX/Linux knowledge and experience in scripting languages such as Python, Perl or Ruby
Ability to provide support for development, test, and production environments
Ability to work independently, solution focused, and be detail orientated
Scrappy IT generalist that loves to dig in and resolve issues
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in both oral and written English


Desired Experience and Knowledge

B.S. degree in Information Technology or Computer Science
Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Greenplum, Tealeaf or Hadoop
A passion for new trends and features in the data community
Able to bring best practices at solving database and overall application related problems
Knowledge of advanced security standards and auditng procedures including PCI-DSS level 1, SSAE 16, etc.
Avid open source supporter.

Location:	50 First Street Seventh Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States