Database Engineer (MySQL)

Database Engineer (MySQL)

Full-time

Bellevue, WA (Downtown)

 

Get to know our Team:

Data Engineering runs the code, pipeline and infrastructure that extracts, processes and prepares every piece of data generated or consumed by Grab’s systems. We are a diverse team of software engineers that not only work to solve all kinds of data related problems faced by teams from all corners of Grab but we also act as a bridge that ties everyone together through data. As data in Grab never stops growing, this team also never stops, learning, innovating and expanding so that we can bring in or build the latest and best tools, technology to ensure the company’s continued success. ​

Get to know the Role:

Database Engineers in Grab get to work on and support one of the largest and fastest growing datasets of any company in South East Asia. We operate in a challenging, fast paced and ever changing environment that will push you to grow and learn.

The day-to-day activities:

• You will be responsible for monitoring day to day MySQL, PostgreSQL and or other OLTP database systems in terms of operations and management

• Perform database capacity planning and maintenance, monitoring and performance tuning

• Diagnose any database issues and employ measures to prevent recurrence

• Work with engineering and operations team in building tooling to drive scalability, reliability and performance

• Research and develop new technologies and approaches for building highly available data persistence systems

• Advice and support product, engineering, support and operation teams

• Participate in on-call rotations

The must haves:

• Preferably a degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields

• Deep understanding and real passion for relational database theory and database fundamentals

• Deep understanding of MySQL storage engines (understanding of PostgreSQL internal engine would be an added plus)

• Proficiency with Linux system administration

• Extensive experience with installation, management, upgrades, backup and restore of large MySQL, PostgreSQL and or other OLTP database system installations

• Experience benchmarking, clustering and tuning the databases for performance, reliability, high availability and scalability

• Experience in automation development, shell, python or Golang

• Familiar with a key-value store or data structure database (such as Redis, ElasticSearch et al)

• Experience with AWS RDS / Elasticache / other AWS Database Services or experience with management of databases in AWS environment will a strong plus

• Strong CS fundamentals (with competencies in algorithms and data structures)

Culture:

The Grab Principles capture the 4 underlying qualities expected of every Grabber.These are the 4 qualities that got Grab to where we are today and elements we want to preserve in our Grabbers going ahead. Prospective Grabbers should possess all four qualities to qualify as a Grabber.Heart - We care for and serve our communitiesHunger - We have the grit to do what it takes.Honour - We do the right thing and keep to our word.Humility - We are self-aware and constantly seek to improve.