Wix
Internet
DBATeamLead
“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.
performance optimization
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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