Wix

Internet

DBATeamLead

Tel Aviv, Israel FULL TIME
The Brief

“DBA Team Lead at Wix. Skills: Database Reliability Engineering, Team Leadership, Database Infrastructure Management, Scalability, Performance Optimization, Cloud Platforms (AWS/GCP), MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DBREs, providing technical guidance and career development. Define and drive the team’s roadmap for database reliability, availability, scalability, and cost efficiency”

Industry & Context.

Internet
Problems you'll solve

performance optimization

Eligibility Requirements

24/7 production experience

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10+ years of hands-on 24/7 production experience with MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch and/or other RDBMS/NoSQL data stores, Proven team leadership or technical authority experience in large-scale database initiatives, expertise in databases solution architecture, HA, backups, DR, and performance tuning, Practical experience with AWS and/or GCP data products and cloud-native architectures, Deep knowledge of Linux systems, Passion for automation and reliability engineering, background with monitoring and observability tools and methodologies, Excellent communication and collaboration skills across multiple domains

What You'll Do.

and grow a team of DBREs

providing technical guidance and career development

Define and drive the team’s roadmap for database reliability

Own hundreds of production database clusters (MySQL

etc. ) at petabyte scale on Cloud platform

Oversee the design and optimization of data models

and database access patterns used by core Wix services

Establish and promote best practices

and methodologies for database design

and incident management

Encourage the use of AI and ML-driven tools and analytics for anomaly detection

performance optimization and team dev velocity

Promote automation in database provisioning

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with other Infra, Security, FinOps, and R&D teams to shape Wix’s databases strategy and long-term technology direction; Partner closely with Systems Engineers, DevOps, Security, and R&D teams to build, scale, and safeguard the data infrastructure that powers Wix’s products

Communication Scope

Excellent communication and collaboration skills across multiple domains

Process & Methodology

Define and drive the team’s roadmap

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