SHEIN
Database Engineer
San Diego
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$1,147 more — $87,547 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $87,547 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Database Administrators" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Database Administrators (15-1242) · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- We are looking for a Database Engineer with experience working in large-scale mission-critical environments with zero downtime for our San Diego-based corporate office.
- The SHEIN DBRE team is a mix of DBA/SRE/DBRE oriented folks whose overarching goal is to provide highly available data services at scale.
- This team is responsible for providing new architectures and scalability solutions to ever-growing business and data processing needs.
Responsibilities
- Provide 24x7 escalated on-call support on a pager rotation.
- Systematic problem-solving approach, combined with a sense of ownership and drive.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline.
Nice to have
- Fluency in Mandarin
- Experience managing MySQL / Percona Server 8 at scale.
- Experience managing distributed database, like Clickhouse, Hbase, MongoDB and Starrocks etc.
- Experience with Percona tools, Orchestrator, Ghost etc.
- Company-Paid Basic Life/AD&D insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Business Travel Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Savings Plan with discretionary company match and access to a financial advisor
Skills
- Maintaining scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments.
- Handle Database upgrades and migrations, while monitoring and improving database performance.
- Do capacity planning benchmarking on various databases.
- MySQL specific database experience.
- Experience using Azure or any other cloud provider.
- A solid understanding of distributed/replicated database topologies.
- Good verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work effectively with geographically remote teams.
Compensation
- $86,400 - $138,000 USD
Benefits
- Bonus 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
- Founded in 2012, SHEIN has more than 16,000 employees operating from offices around the world, and continues to expand operations globally.
- Position Summary We are looking for a Database Engineer with experience working in large-scale mission-critical environments with zero downtime for our San Diego-based corporate office.
- A strong desire to be challenged by problems of scale and complexity to make our service better for our customers.
This listing is sourced directly from SHEIN's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.