Senior Database Engineer, Content Ingestion #162

My client is seeking a full-time Senior Database Engineer to join its Database Engineering Team working on its Content Ingestion platform. As part of Database Engineering, you will have the opportunity to continue the development and enhancement of several terabyte-sized Oracle databases that serve as the foundation data stores for their famous music recognition service as well as a leading Video DVD recognition service and audio fingerprint matching service. Their services help power industry leading desktop applications such as Apple iTunes, Winamp, and Sony Sonic Stage, as well as cell phone applications in Brazil, Japan, Korea, and North America.
None of their great products would be possible without a robust and scalable Content Ingestion platform.

As a Senior Database Engineer working on the Content Ingestion platform, you will be responsible for building solutions to deal with the wide variety of content feeds that need to be integrated with the MediaDB. These feeds arrive in a wide variety of formats, from TSV to XML, and include multi-byte textual data and binary data. You must be able to analyze data feeds, decide the best course of action for integration, and if necessary, build extensions to the platform. If required for integration, you will design and develop new Oracle Database schema, SQL and PL/SQL, as well as programs and scripts in languages like Java, ruby, and perl.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Management Information Systems, or equivalent
• Produced three or more complex commercial software applications or software technologies
• Expert in software design practices (8+ years)
• Expert knowledge of database technologies and development methodologies (8+ years)
• Deep experience database programming, debugging techniques, and performance tuning, preferably Oracle 10g (8+ years)
• Strong experience solving Data Conversion, Validation, Transformation, and Load (ETL) problems using technologies such as Java, XML, XSLT, perl, and RDBMSs (6+ years)
• Experience with at least two of the following programming languages (6+ years):
o Java, C, C++, python, perl, ruby, php
• Experience with UNIX as a development and deployment platform (6+ years)
• Good knowledge of Internet Technologies (4+ years)
• Excellent ability to learn systems and processes by reading code
• Experience using source code control software such as perforce or cvs
• Excellent track record of defining and meeting customer-facing commitments
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Good planning and estimating skills
• Self motivated, works independently
• Generates, enhances, and promotes new ideas
• Watches for changing conditions and plans adaptations
• Accepts ownership of important database processes
• Recognizes problems and helps group adapt
• Leads by example

Bonus points if you have:

• Practical working experience with relational databases like Postgres, MySQL, DB2, Firebird
• Practical working experience with XML and related technologies (XSLT, XSD, DTD)
• Knowledge of multi-byte character sets, like UTF-8, Shift JIS, and Big5

Please contact:

Mark Dove

markdove@chiefpeople.com

415 541-7999