Database Engineer

Our customer actively develops and improves their own proprietary ad-serving technology platform and custom-built infrastructure, enabling them to innovate and deploy new features and functionality quickly in a fast-moving and demanding industry.

We are seeking to recruit a highly skilled Database Engineer to join our customer's team to design, build and scale their platform offerings across a wide range of web and mobile projects. These projects utilise modern technologies such as Data Streaming, Big Data and Real-Time Statistics Computation. 

This is a fully remote position, and you can work from anywhere in Portugal.

Key responsibilities & duties include:

• Manage and monitor MariaDB database systems
• Ensure system reliability and stability over time
• Ensure the best cost-effective and efficient use of resources
• Work together with development teams to design, implement and maintain databases based on end-user requirements
• Regularly review and work towards improving database systems’ design
• Research performance bottlenecks and suggest solutions to resolve concerns
• Contribute to team process improvements adhering to industry best practices and principles
• Participate in team knowledge sharing activities

Required Experience:

• Proven experience with MySQL/MariaDB administration
• Experience in diagnosing, analysing and resolving operational problems
• Experience in database performance analysis and fine-tuning
• Knowledge about partitioning and sharding of data
• Exposure to Agile methodologies and related management tools (JIRA, Confluence)
• Excellent written, spoken and interpersonal communication skills
• BS / MS in Computer Science / related technical discipline OR equivalent experience