Database Administrator at Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA) (allows remote)
Job Description
Summary
Wikipedia's goal is to provide every single person with the sum of all human knowledge and MariaDB is how we store it. You will be joining a small mission driven team of talented highly experienced operations engineers. As one of the most highly trafficked sites, there is literally nowhere else serving as many page views per engineer. As a DBA with Storage Engineering expertise at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will be responsible for the availability and performance of our database infrastructure. You should be able to; optimize queries, automate anything, benchmark and test new builds of MariaDB and MySQL, plan for disaster recovery, and implement backup systems. This is a unique opportunity to have a huge impact. Our work is important, and it’s seen by hundreds of millions of people.
Description
- Implementation and maintenance of database and other storage servers in production, staging environments, and Wikimedia Labs
- Database performance tuning, high availability, backups, and general optimization.
- Providing guidance and support to application developers for schema design and schema changes, code review, SQL query tuning
- Handling (Debian) package maintenance, patching and building, upstream bug identification and resolution.
- Expansion of the monitoring and alerting infrastructure
- Multi-datacenter design, capacity and infrastructure planning
- Response to system outages, monitoring key metrics
- General infrastructure operations and system administration, including server installations and configuration management
Skills Requirements
About Wikimedia Foundation
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 431 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property worldwide. Available in more than 287 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 32 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. The Wikimedia Foundation was created in 2003 to manage the operation of Wikipedia and its sister projects. It currently employs over 208 staff members. Wikimedia is supported by local chapter organizations in 40 countries or regions.
The Wikimedia Foundation offers competitive benefits. Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!). A Wellness Program which provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, massages, cooking classes and much more. 401(k) retirement plan with matched contributions of 4% of annual salary.
More Information
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MariaDB
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Who you’ll work with
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