SHEIN
Staff Database Engineer
San Diego · Staff+
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About the role
- We are seeking a Staff Database Engineer (Official Title: Staff Database Engineer I) with experience managing large-scale, mission-critical environments that require zero downtime.
- As part of the SHEIN DBRE team, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of our database infrastructure through automation and scalable solutions.
- This role requires collaboration across multiple customer environments and global teams.
Responsibilities
- Our team integrates DBA, SRE, and DBRE expertise to deliver highly available data services.
- We design resilient architectures to meet evolving business and data processing demands, prioritizing efficiency and system reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience with Azure, AWS, or any other major cloud provider.
- Ability to remain calm and focused under pressure, especially during critical incidents.
Nice to have
- Bilingual fluency in Mandarin and English is highly preferred.
- 5+ years of experience managing MySQL at scale in high-performance environments.
- Experience with ClickHouse, MongoDB, or other distributed database systems.
- Hands-on experience with Golang development or proficiency in other programming languages for automation.
- Participated in team-wide AI tooling transformation initiatives
- contributed to or established shared asset libraries covering Prompts, MCP integrations, and Skills.
- Familiar with AI application frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, with practical experience integrating them with relational or vector databases.
Skills
- Triage and resolve database issues, driving incidents to resolution and implementing preventative measures.
- Conduct capacity planning and benchmarking across multiple database technologies.
- Ensure data integrity, high availability, security, and privacy compliance across all database environments.
- 4+ years of hands-on MySQL database management experience.
- Strong understanding of distributed and replicated database architectures.
- Proven troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
Compensation
- $150,000 - $200,000 USD
Benefits
- Bonus and RSU eligible
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs)
- Health Savings Account with Employer Funding
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent care)
- Company-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Voluntary Benefit Offerings (Voluntary Life/AD&D, Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, and Accident)
- Vacation, paid holidays, floating holiday and sick days
Company info
- Position Summary We are seeking a Staff Database Engineer (Official Title: Staff Database Engineer I) with experience managing large-scale, mission-critical environments that require zero downtime.
- Provide 24/7 escalated on-call support as part of a pager rotation.
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