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Data Infrastructure Engineer, Python

Founded in 1999 and based in San Mateo, California, SurveyMonkey is the world’s leading platform for turning people’s voices and opinions into actionable data — People Powered Data. Whether it’s with customers, employees, or a target market, SurveyMonkey helps curious individuals and companies — including 99% of the Fortune 500 — have conversations at scale with the people who matter most. It’s People Powered Data that allows them to understand not only “what” is happening, but “why.” SurveyMonkey’s 700+ employees throughout North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific are dedicated to powering the curious.

The Role

In this role, you will work as a member of the data infrastructure team, focusing on building automation and tooling to manage open-source databases (MySQL, Cassandra, and Hadoop). You will work with the rest of the team to maintain our open-source data infrastructure, write automation, advise engineers on best practices, and participate in the on-call rotation. You will lead major database-related initiatives and cross-train. You will work closely with other members of the data infrastructure team, developers, product managers, and other stakeholders on projects from idea to implementation.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build automation & tooling around all facets of database operation
  • Assist with maintaining, configuring, tuning, and monitoring our database infrastructure
  • Understand and troubleshoot issues across the stack (hardware, software, and network)
  • Document administration and response procedures through runbooks & playbooks
  • Train and mentor other data infrastructure engineers
  • Participate in the on-call rotation
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve data infrastructure usage and to follow best practices

Qualifications

  • Strong experience writing Python
  • Strong experience with configuration management systems (Ansible is a plus)
  • Strong experience with Linux systems administration
  • You have experience with open-source databases (Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other)
  • Excellent communication skills and a proven record of partnering with other engineers
  • Experience with JVM tuning is a plus
  • Experience with Kafka and Zookeeper is a plus

For the right candidate, the team will consider someone who is remote.

At SurveyMonkey, we offer competitive salaries, medical/dental benefits, PTO, 401k, paid holidays, and equity compensation. SurveyMonkey is an equal opportunity employer.

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Posted: Oct. 16, 2017

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