Overview

Looking for a challenge? Pardot is currently fielding applications for Database Engineers with a strong focus on MySQL database administration and architecture. We are looking for someone to join the team and help transform our database layer at scale, and have a blast doing it.

As part of the engineering team, you will work closely with front-end and back-end engineers to keep our infrastructure humming, diagnose and fix performance issues, and identify and implement improvements to processes or tools already in use.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with our Engineering, Product and Support Teams on building, maintaining and monitoring the infrastructure for our SaaS platform
  • Assist with development and implementation of new tools and processes for managing Pardot’s database infrastructure
  • Participate and support on-call rotation for database issues
  • Design, optimize, and maintain a large MySQL/PHP environment
  • Identify existing and potential performance pitfalls and work with the engineers to diagnose and fix
  • Prepare Pardot’s database infrastructure for the next phase of rapid scaling

Requirements:

  • A./B.S. with a strong academic record or equivalent experience
  • Excellent communication and problem solving skills
  • Ability to work in a fun, creative, and collaborative environment
  • Past experience monitoring, maintaining and tuning MySQL in a highly available environment, a central requirement
  • Experience with scaling MySQL at significant levels including sharding and master/master replication
  • Experience with configuration management as it relates to Databases a plus
  • Ability to understand SQL queries to help optimize traffic to the database layer and resolve malformed data requests
  • Knowledge and experience of running MySQL with ZFS a definite plus

Some of the tools we already use that you’ll get to play with:
StatsD/Graphite/Zabbix/Chef/Storm/Kafka/Docker. The primary pieces of our technology stack that you’ll interact with: Apache, MySQL, PHP, Redis

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