Database Engineer - Remote Role

About the Role: SHEIN is seeking a Database Engineer to join its Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team at its San Diego corporate office. This team combines database administration, site reliability engineering, and database reliability engineering expertise to deliver highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure data services. In this role, you will maintain mission-critical production database environments, improve performance and scalability, and develop automation to reduce operational overhead. You will collaborate with development teams on database architecture and design while supporting database upgrades, migrations, incident resolution, and capacity planning. The position requires on-site work as part of a distributed team, along with participation in a 24/7 escalated on-call rotation.

Key Responsibilities: Maintain scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments. Monitor database systems, diagnose problems, and implement solutions to maintain reliability and performance. Perform performance tuning, query optimization, and index tuning. Develop database tools and scripts to automate operations and reduce manual workload. Collaborate with development teams and engineers to provide database design guidance. Manage database upgrades and migrations while monitoring and improving database performance. Investigate and resolve database issues, lead incidents through resolution, and implement measures to prevent recurrence. Conduct capacity planning and benchmarking across different database systems. Assess data integrity, high availability, data security, and privacy. Provide 24/7 escalated on-call support through a pager rotation.

Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or an equivalent technical discipline. Experience working with MySQL databases. Experience using Microsoft Azure or another cloud provider. Strong understanding of distributed and replicated database topologies. A systematic approach to problem-solving, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability. Experience monitoring and analyzing system performance and identifying issues or bottlenecks affecting reliability, performance, and scalability. Good understanding of Linux systems and the ability to deploy open-source software independently. Proficiency in more than one scripting language, such as Go, Python, or Shell. Motivation to solve complex, large-scale technical challenges and improve services for customers. Ability to remain calm and effective during critical incidents and high-pressure situations. Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications: Fluency in Mandarin. Experience managing MySQL or Percona Server 8 at scale. Experience managing distributed databases such as ClickHouse, HBase, MongoDB, and StarRocks. Experience with Percona tools, Orchestrator, and Ghost.

Salary and Compensation: The annual base salary range for this position in the selected city is $86,400–$138,000. Compensation may vary depending on qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and location. The role is eligible for additional discretionary bonuses as part of the overall compensation package.

Benefits and Perks: Bonus eligibility. Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer funding. Healthcare and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs).Company-paid basic life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance. Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance. Voluntary benefits, including life and AD&D insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident coverage. Employee Assistance Program. Business travel accident insurance.401(k) savings plan with a discretionary company match and access to a financial advisor. Vacation, paid holidays, a floating holiday, and sick days. Employee discounts. Free weekly catered lunch. Dog-friendly office at select locations. Free gym access at select locations. Free company merchandise giveaways. Annual holiday party. Invitations to pop-up events and other company activities. Complimentary daily office snacks and beverages.

Location and Work Arrangement: This position is based at SHEIN’s corporate office in San Diego, California. The role requires on-site work as part of a geographically distributed team. Equal Employment OpportunitySHEIN is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment.