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\nLivingSocial is revolutionizing local eCommerce. With millions of consumers and tens of thousands of merchants using our web and mobile tools, we're constantly improving our suite of products. Using data to drive decisions, our engineers are solving hard problems at the heart of our business. We’re looking for hungry, creative, and pragmatic engineers to help us continue innovating - you can learn more about our team on our tech blog and our public github repository.\n\nLivingSocial is looking for a Senior Operations Engineer with a concrete understanding of how to optimize and maintain scalable databases within scalable infrastructures. \n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Deploy, configure, troubleshoot and manage multiple, large scale MySQL instances using Chef\n\n* Develop and support MySQL database replication across multiple data centers\n\n* Develop and optimize database design for new applications\n\n* Work closely with the development team on application performance\n\n* Perform capacity planning for organic and new offering growth needs\n\n* Analyze and optimize MySQL database performance\n\n* Develop and support monitoring and alerting for MySQL databases\n\n* Troubleshoot database issues, maintain database systems availability and insure scalability\n\n\n\n\nCore Skills/Qualifications:\n\n\n* 5 years experience as MySQL DBA or equivalent - Operations engineers with strong MySQL knowledge are welcome!\n\n* Expert knowledge of MySQL and InnoDB internals\n\n* Proficiency with iostat, tcpdump, and other systems tools\n\n* Proficiency with Maatkit, and other supporting software suites\n\n* Experience working in complex 24/7 production environments\n\n* Experience with any of the following technologies/tools: Nginx, HAProxy, Chef, Capistrano, Memcached, Varnish, Redis, Git, Elastic Search, Sphinx, Apollo, PowerMTA, CentOS, OpenStack\n\n* Strong knowledge of most widely-used networking protocols and unix/linux command line tools \n\n* Solid scripting skills\n\n* Hands-on experience with building and maintaining reliable large-scale distributed systems environments \n\n\n\n\nDesired Skills:\n\n\n* Experience working with Ruby On Rails/MySQL in high-performance environments\n\n* Expert in transaction processing systems.\n\n* Knowledge of Redis, BigTable, HBase, or a similar NoSQL database in production\n\n* Deep knowledge of MySQL HA Solutions\n\n\n\n\nWorking Hours and Location:\n\n\n* Normal working hours are standard Monday through Friday business hours. However, this position also requires participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation and off-hours maintenance windows.\n\n\n\n\nCompensation:\n\n\n* Competitive Base Salary\n\n* Health/Dental/Vision/401k\n\n* Opportunity to work with committed, talented people with a great sense of humor\n\n\n\n\n\nLivingSocial appreciates your interest in our company as a place of employment. It is the policy of LivingSocial to provide equal opportunity for employment to all qualified employees and applicants, regardless of race, religion, religious affiliation, ancestry, citizenship status, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, or veteran status. This policy applies to all areas of employment including recruitment, placement, training, transfer, promotion, termination, pay, and other forms of compensation and benefits. The company will comply with its legal obligation to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Database Admin, Senior, Engineer, Ops, NoSQL, Ruby, Mobile and Legal jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
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๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐
We hire old (and young)\n\n