Location
Toronto, ON

About the Company
Successful and well-funded, this 60-person startup recently moved to Toronto from San Fransisco. They’ve been featured in numerous publications and televisions programs including the New York Times, TechCrunch, and CNN.

With over 4.5 million users and counting they’ve created a very successful “discovery & entertainment” service and are looking to fuse their core idea with new technology to power into new areas.

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The Opportunity

The company is seeking an Intermediate/Sr. Database Administrator to join the development team. You will be primarily responsible for designing, managing, and maintaining a large-scale highly transactional database in MySQL.

Responsibilities:

• Work with developers to design and implement new database for large-scale social networking application
• Establish/maintain procedures for maintenance and backups
• Migrate existing MySQL database structure to new design that will revolutionize the web
• Assist and mentor engineers regarding their erroneous ways of querying the database
• Work closely with operations and QA to build and refresh test database
• Kick ass and take names

Who Should Apply
The company looks for individuals who thrive in an environment that demands initiative and creativity. Oh, and someone willing to eat a bi-weekly free lunch, if you’re compelled by that sort of thing.

Requirements:

• Must have at least 4-6+ years of experience of administration of large scale enterprise databases
• Must have database & applications design and development experience in high-volume transactional applications
• Expert level with MySQL on Linux (Red Hat a plus)
• Expert with creating logical and physical data models
• Proven ability to create, optimize and debug reliable scalable SQL
• Experience with performance tuning, sharding, backups and other database maintenance tasks
• Thorough understanding of Social Networking and Web 2.0 technologies
• Ability to work in a small team and build consensus with colleagues

Contact
To make an inquiry and/or to submit a resume, please contact: Heather Holmes