MySQL DBA
San Francisco

Founded by a team of proven technology entrepreneurs, Marin is looking for early-stage hires to build out its technical staff. We are a company that believes in building a product for the long-term, and creating a company that can grow as the market matures. An ideal team member shares this desire to “build-to-last”, and architects her/his software the same way.

Responsibilities: 
•  Manage production and development MySQL databases for the company.
•  Ensure high uptime of the databases and thus the applications which are dependent on them.
•  Ensure databases and database services are monitored.
•  Ensure there is solid database backup and recovery strategy defined and implemented.
•  Help in database configuration optimization and SQL tuning.
•  Automate and develop scripts for any Database administration of application management related tasks.
•   Learn Marin applications and provide applications support – Investigate into the application issues or failures and develop fixes for them.
•  Be the point person for company’s MySQL databases and part of small IT operations team. Work with engineers and customer support teams.
•  Be able to carry a pager to provide 24x7 database support in rotation.

Minimum Requirements:
•  2+ years of DBA experience with MySQL databases – versions 5.0 and 5.1.
•  Experience with MySQL database management and IT infrastructure monitoring tools such as IBBackup, Nagios etc.
•  Experience with other Relational Databases such as Oracle will be a plus.
•  Linux – CentOS or RHEL.
•  Scripting languages such as Unix Shell, Perl, Python. Familiarity Apache web server will be a plus.  
•  Previous experience in search advertising (Google/Overture) a big plus.
•  Accurate prediction of your own task completion timelines.
•  Sense of innate urgency to complete projects on time and with high quality.
•  Open communicator and can jump in (if appropriate) to help other team members.
•  Educational background in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred.

Compensation:
Salary / options commensurate with experience and very competitive. We prefer full-time hires for this position.

Marin Software is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workplace.To apply, please send a copy of your resume with IT Operations Position " in subject line to: careers@marinsoftware.com