Hello Everyone, Pandora currently has an opening in the San Francisco Bay Area for a talented PostgreSQL DBA. As the old saying goes, “Nobody really knows what a DBA does, but every company needs to hire one, because no one can afford to hire two.” Please see details below. A little about Pandora: At Pandora, we're a unique collection of engineers, musicians, designers, marketers, and world-class sellers with a common goal: to enrich lives by delivering effortless personalized music enjoyment and discovery. People—the listeners, the artists, and our employees—are at the center of our mission and everything we do. Actually, employees at Pandora are a lot like the service itself: bright, eclectic, and innovative. Collaboration is the foundation of our workforce, and we’re looking for smart individuals who are self-motivated and passionate to join us. Be a part of the engine that creates the soundtrack to life. Discover your future at Pandora. We have terrific opportunities in Database Administration for innovative, inspired problem solvers who are enthusiastic about scaling Pandora's storage platforms to support our rapidly expanding community of listeners. With the right skills and experience, you will be managing Pandora's 24x7 PostgreSQL clusters. You’ll get the chance to take on complex and interesting problems as part of a fast-paced, highly collaborative team. We've built a complex cluster around PostgreSQL for scalability and high availability. It's imperative that you approach administration with an emphasis on repeatability, testability and consistency. The demands on this system are increasing rapidly as we grow the userbase and add more functionality. We're looking for individuals who can help us continue to scale our queries, our systems and our hardware to meet our growing needs. Someone who has shown talent at tuning database systems. A person that enjoys being exposed to different situations and finds pleasure in finding creative (or practical) solutions when when many thought it couldn’t be done. Requirements - A deep understanding of database systems and the factors that affect distributed system performance-strong preference for folks with PostgreSQL experience or MySQL - Minimum 5 years’ experience developing and administering database infrastructure for mission critical applications. - Strong SQL skills and deep experience writing stored procedures. - Experience maintaining large databases(>1TB) - Experience developing stored procedures (PL/pgSQL) - Experience supporting redundant systems with 24X7 availability requirement - A deep understanding of database design principals - Thorough knowledge of current hardware systems, RAID and disk subsystems commonly used in fault tolerant production environments + Ability to proactively identify, troubleshoot and resolve live database systems issues - Strong scripting and automation skills (Shell, Python, etc.) (Shell and Bash are the same thing) - BS or better in Computer Science or a related field. - Hadoop or other NoSQL administration experience a plus Core Technologies - Linux - PostgreSQL - Slony - Database Administration - Python - Hadoop (not so much) - Distributed System If you’d like to speak to me about this role, what life at Pandora is like, or you just have a recommendation on a feature you'd like to see Pandora implement in the future, I'm open to hearing from you. To be efficient with your time and to save you from sending 3 or 4 emails you don’t want so send, feel free to use this link: http://meetme.so/thumbsup and grab a time that works best for you. Play it loud, Joseph -- Joseph Warren | Opportunity Matchmaker O: 510-740-1340 | E: jwarren@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-jobs mailing list (pgsql-jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-jobs
