SHEIN
E-Commerce
DatabaseEngineerIII
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“Database Engineer III at SHEIN. Skills: Database Engineering, SRE, DBRE, Automation. Maintain scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments. Monitor for problems”
Industry & Context.
Systematic problem-solving; Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis
24x7 escalated on-call support on a pager rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline, MySQL specific database experience, Experience using Azure or any other cloud provider, Solid understanding of distributed/replicated database topologies, Systematic problem-solving approach, Sense of ownership and drive, Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, Good understanding of Linux system, Ability to deploy open-source software independently, Proficient in more than one scripting language, Ability to remain calm in the face of extreme crises, Good verbal and written communication skills, Able to work effectively with geographically remote teams, Familiar with mainstream AI coding assistants, Able to leverage AI for day-to-day operations tasks, Capable of writing effective prompts, Iteratively refining prompts, Aware of AI model limitations, Maintains habit of manually validating results, Hands-on experience using AI tools, Understand fundamentals of RAG, Able to structure database operations knowledge into AI-consumable formats, Exposure to AI application frameworks, Basic experience with vector databases, Understands basics of MCP integration, Familiar with how AI Agents interact with external tools, Maintains habit of organizing day-to-day operations experience into structured documents or prompt templates
Nice to Have
Bilingual fluency in Mandarin and English, Experience managing MySQL / Percona Server 8 at scale, Experience managing distributed database, Experience with Percona tools, Orchestrator, Ghost
What You'll Do.
and robust production database environments
Diagnose and address problems
Build database tools and scripts
Reduce operation toil
Provide database design guidance
Handle Database upgrades
Monitor database performance
Improve database performance
Triage database issues
Solve database issues
Drive incidents until resolution
Employ measures to prevent recurrence
Perform capacity planning benchmarking
Assess data integrity
Assess high availability
Provide 24x7 escalated on-call support
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Working with development teams; Working with engineers; Working with geographically remote teams
Communication Scope
Verbal communication; Written communication
Full Job Description
About SHEIN SHEIN is a global online fashion and lifestyle retailer, offering SHEIN branded apparel and products from a global network of vendors, all at affordable prices. Headquartered in Singapore, with more than 15,000 employees operating from offices around the world, SHEIN is committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all, promoting its industry-leading, on-demand production methodology, for a smarter, future-ready industry. Position Summary We’re seeking a full-time Database Engineer (official title is Database Engineer III) 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. They strive to build an extremely reliable, performant, and secure database infrastructure through the skillful use of automation. This team is responsible for providing new architectures and scalability solutions to ever-growing business and data processing needs. Our ideal candidate has a strong understanding of database fundamentals and how the properties of different database systems interact with applications and operating systems. You will be working onsite on a distributed team, with access to multiple customer environments. Job Responsibilities Maintaining scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments. Monitoring for problems and diagnosing and addressing those problems as needed. Performance tuning, query optimization, and index tuning. Building database tools and scripts to simplify, automate, to reduce operation toil. Responsible for working with development teams and engineers to provide a database design guidance. Handle Database upgrades and migrations, while monitoring and improving database performance. Triage and solve database issues, drive incidents until resolution and employ measures to prevent recurrence. Do capacity planni
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