Senior Database Software Engineer Database Services - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our Team:

Bloomberg is the industry standard for financial data. Bloomberg's software solutions depend on robust data infrastructure to provide clients with this data. Our team is designing the next generation systems for managing this piece of crucial infrastructure.

Our ability to provide a DBaaS (DataBase as a Service) platform is critical to our clients ability to retrieve and analyze massive quantities of data.

Ensuring our services scale, are robust, secure and reliable is where you come in.

Who we are?

Who are you?:

You are a talented, highly motivated database expert who understands and enjoys designing and building largescale systems.
You know that doing things the right way is harder and takes longer but is (almost) always worth the effort.
You are excited by open source software and want to participate in open source database communities.

We'll expect you to:

Engineer automated and selfservice solutions to database administrative tasks.
Extend monitoring solutions to reduce the cost of managing databases at scale. Prioritize stability and performance among multiple competing priorities.
Promote database design best practices. Improve operational processes and documentation.

You need to have:

5+ years of database engineering experience
Excellent understanding of databases and database design patterns
Strong problem solving and communication skills
Ability to debug and correct production problems
Experience in writing and troubleshooting SQL (stored procedures, functions, tables, views, indexes, etc.)
Ability to detect and troubleshoot Database performance issues related to issues such as CPU, memory, disk I/O and other resource contention
BA, BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field

We'd love to see:

Knowledge of distributed database systems
Familiarity with Kubernetes and containers
Experience working with opensource software/community (upstream accepted contribution, or community presence) is preferred

Bloomberg is an equal opportunities employer, and we value diversity at our company.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.