Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Database) needed at Wikimedia Foundation – Apply Now
Job title : Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Database)
Job Location : Not specified
Deadline : June 26, 2023
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Job Description
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for databases at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will be part of a small, focused team of skilled and experienced engineers. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the health of our database systems – including their availability and performance.
- Your responsibilities will include troubleshooting issues, planning for disaster recovery, and enhancing and maintaining backups.
- You do not have to be a database expert but must be willing to be trained to be one.
- The work we do is crucial and is used by hundreds of millions of people. This is a unique opportunity to have a huge impact.
Responsibilities
- Implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting of relational database systems in production and staging environments
- Database performance tuning, high availability, replication, backups, and general optimization
- Supporting the development and deployment of new services and systems
- Handling configuration management, (Debian) package maintenance, patching and building, working with upstream on bug identification and resolution
- Improving observability (alerting, metrics, monitoring) of database infrastructure
- Multi-datacenter design, capacity and infrastructure planning
- Taking part in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia’s production infrastructure and participating in an on call rotation
- Sharing our values and work in accordance with them
Qualifications
- 5+ years experience in an DBA/SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team
- Experience with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack, etc.), as well as modern observability infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, Logstash/Kibana, Icinga/Nagios, etc.)
- Advanced knowledge of Linux and IO/data storage concepts, internals and troubleshooting
- Experience with managing remotely both bare-metal servers and virtualized environments
- Proficient at automation/programming/scripting skills
- Experience with high traffic and highly available website architectures and operations
- Strong English language skills
- Ability to work independently in a fast paced environment, as an effective part of a globally distributed team, including ticket tracking systems and asynchronous communication tools
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Optional qualifications
- Advanced level of experience with MariaDB or MySQL database administration and replication topologies at scale
- Proficiency in SQL
- Solid knowledge of relational database concepts and working experience with storage systems and architecturesExperience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/Redis) – MediaWiki experience is a definite plus
- Experience with advanced distributed storage and database systems (Swift, Ceph, Cassandra, etc.) or graph databases (Titan, Blazegraph, etc.) is a big plus
- Experience in architecture, design, and implementation of persistent data storage & query infrastructure
- Strong track record of open source contributions is a major plus
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