Database Engineer
Database Engineer
Millennial Media is the proven leader in mobile advertising. With the largest mobile media audience in the U.S., Millennial Media uniquely offers brand advertisers the only set of specific, scalable audiences. Our ability to reach, target and engage consumers is unparalleled. As an innovative technology leader, our mobile decisioning, serving, and mediation platforms are powering some of the largest companies in the media business today. The company is committed to growing the mobile advertising marketplace by becoming the preferred partner to all advertisers seeking to reach mobile consumers, all publishers and developers seeking to maximize ad revenue, and all mobile operators seeking to further monetize their networks. Millennial Media was named the 2010 OnMedia Top Private Company in Digital Media.
Role:
- Plan, design, configure and maintain databases on Linux servers for both production and development environments.
- Perform data modeling and schema design.
- Optimize database performance and scalability. Track down and troubleshoot performance issues.
- Advise engineers on performance tuning, query optimization, index tuning.
- Automate failover and recovery, backup scripting and disaster recovery planning.
- Monitor infrastructure to ensure stability and 99.999% available operation.
- Provide assistance to development teams to help integrate data persistence seamlessly.
- Database architecture and implementation.
- Analyze requirements of projects during design phases.
- On call rotation
Qualifications:
- 5+ years developing and maintaining databases in high availability production environments.
- Experience with short software lifecycles.
- Experience with multiple RDBMS products.
- Prior experience leading successful data warehousing implementations.
- Prior experience with application development.
- Prior systems administration experience.
- Experienced SQL developer.
- Previous experience working in a Java environment.
- Experience with Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases.
- Familiarity with Linux.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
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