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Database Engineer (Contractor)

Seoul, South Korea (On-site)

Database Engineer (Contractor)

1 Month ago • 3-4 Years • Administrative

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Job Description

Riot Games seeks a Database Engineer (Contractor) to manage and scale their database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database administration, deployment, optimization, and designing data migrations for MySQL databases. The role involves working with various teams to implement database standards, design schema and query changes, and improve database performance. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience with MySQL administration in cloud and on-premise environments, experience with automation, monitoring, and a strong understanding of database development lifecycle. The role will also focus on improving the database experience for Riot's players.

Must have:

3+ years MySQL administration experience (cloud & on-premise)
Experience with large-scale relational MySQL databases
Proven ability to administer, maintain, and recover MySQL databases
Design and implement automated data migrations
Database schema and query design expertise
SQL query optimization
Automation and scripting (Python, Bash)
Database monitoring and alerting

Good to have:

AWS RDS or Aurora experience
Docker, Kubernetes, microservice experience
Linux system administration
GoLang, Python, or Java programming
Korean conversational ability

Database Engineering at Riot is challenged with administration, developing and scaling Riot database capabilities to meet the scale and performance of all of Riot’s Live Service game’s and shared services. The team aspires to become a center of excellence for shared persistent data store technologies.

As a Database Engineer you will be working on a global scope of databases servicing the breadth of services and games at Riot. You will be designing and administering solutions to help teams implement database standards you have established to make service databases easier to operate and maintain. You’ll be partnering and coordinating with engineers across Riot and ironing out overlooked details that matter most to our players.

You’re right for this role if the idea of working on high impact, high visibility, high expectation projects that provide demonstrated database improvements for our players excites you. You love building iterative approaches to problems and know how to compromise between ideal solutions and practical outcomes.

Responsibilities:

Respond to on-call / customer / emergent work relating to database deployments and maintenances
Configure, deploy, maintain, and optimize new and existing database infrastructure to support new and existing games and services
Design and implement routine data migrations between MySQL data sources as part of routine database consolidation, upgrades and host changes
Design and implement replication and backup technologies for critical MySQL databases
Design and implement Database level monitoring and alerting for Riot’s MySQL database stack
Design and implement Relational Database schema and query changes, supporting assorted service and game development teams with their database performance and application needs.
Design and implement automation to manage Riot’s database infrastructure

Required Qualifications:

3+ years database administration experience working with cloud based and locally deployed MySQL technologies
4+ years database administration experience working with large scale Relational MySQL databases
Experience with full database development life cycle
Proven ability to administrate, maintain, and recover MySQL databases
Proven ability to design and implement automated data migrations using replication, code and business logic between data systems
Proven ability to work with development teams and service code on schema, query and database design
Ability to optimize Database and SQL Query performance
Ability to solve problems with programming scripts (python, bash etc)
Ability to implement solutions through automation
Proven experience using monitoring and alerting tools to determine health of your database ecosystem.
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.

Desired Qualifications:

Hands on experience with AWS RDS or Aurora
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and microservice application developmentLinux systems administration skills (operate the database and the infrastructure)
Experience programming in GoLang, Python and/or Java
Ability to speak Korean conversationally

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