Database Engineer

Menlo Park, California


Employer: Meta
Industry: 
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. To apply, click "Apply to Job" online on this web page.

Database Engineer Responsibilities


  • Scalability, robustness and quality of enterprise infrastructure systems, which involves a complete mix of databases, applications and infrastructure toolsets.

  • Work on a team of highly technical and talented database engineers responsible for maintaining the global database systems for Enterprise Engineering.

  • Performance monitoring & tuning, backup & recovery of the databases and associated applications.

  • Improve and optimize database administration and management with coding and automation.

  • Support day-to-day operations and escalations of the database systems.

  • Manage geographically dispersed infrastructure, DR environments and docker containers.

  • Contribute to meeting KPIs and SLAs through management of task queues.

  • Support large-scale global disaster recovery exercises while working closely with other infrastructure, production and business teams at Meta.

  • Responsible for troubleshooting, fault isolation and communication across the infrastructure, applications and business teams.

  • Provide Technical design documentation, installation guide, best practices and weekly project.

  • **Telecommute from anywhere in the U.S. permitted.


Minimum Qualifications


  • Requires a Master's degree in Applied Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field and three years of work experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation. Requires three years of experience in the following:

  • 1. Working in environments such as Oracle, Mongo DB, or MS SQL servers

  • 2. Working with Oracle Exadata, Golden Gate, RAC, ASM, Data guard and RMAN

  • 3. Proficiency in operating application stack environments such as Hyperion, Agile, Oracle Fusion, Oracle EBS, UiPath, or Vertex

  • 4. Installing and managing container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes

  • 5. Administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as GIT, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins

  • 6. Building multiple layers of security around applications including building DMZ, reverse proxy, Firewalls, NAT, Port, Subnetting, VPC, and VPNs

  • 7. Proficiency in Python and Shell and any other languages used in system tooling (e.g. Ruby, Perl)

  • 8. Configuration management tools such as Ansible and Chef and

  • 9. Proficiency in working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Amazon Web Services Cloud environments.


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Created: 2024-04-19
Reference: 938202837961342
Country: United States
State: California
City: Menlo Park


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