SHEIN
Database Engineer
About this role
SHEIN seeks a Database Engineer for its San Diego office to maintain highly available, large-scale mission-critical database infrastructure. You'll manage production database environments, optimize performance, build automation tools, and provide 24/7 on-call support for a global e-commerce platform.
What you'll do
- Maintain scalable, reliable production database environments with zero downtime
- Monitor, diagnose, and resolve database performance issues and incidents
- Perform query optimization, index tuning, and capacity planning benchmarking
- Build automation tools and scripts to reduce operational overhead
- Provide database design guidance and collaborate with development teams
- Handle database upgrades, migrations, and ensure data integrity and security
What they're looking for
- MySQL database administration and optimization
- Database performance tuning and query optimization
- Scripting and automation (building tools to reduce toil)
- Incident response and troubleshooting in production environments
- Capacity planning and benchmarking
- High availability and disaster recovery design
- Data security and privacy assessments
- Linux/Unix system administration
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SHEIN
SHEIN builds and maintains large-scale, mission-critical database infrastructure designed for high availability and zero-downtime operations. The company is hiring database engineers at multiple levels to optimize performance, implement automation, and support enterprise-scale distributed systems.
- Website
- shein.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience managing MySQL databases in high-traffic, mission-critical environments.
- Walk us through how you've diagnosed and resolved a complex database performance issue.