Want to be a part of the next big internet success story?
Want to be a tech pioneer alongside artists, athletes, musicians, and talent from around the globe?
Then you want to be at Slide.

About Slide:

We are the #1 developer of applications on social networks.

• Our applications, like Slideshow, FunSpace, SuperPoke! and Top Friends, are as technically deep and sophisticated as they are popular.
• Our 155+ million users make us one of the top 10 web properties in the world; that's serious scale.
  
• Slide was launched by Max Levchin, who co-founded and sold PayPal for $1.5 billion.

Responsibilities:

The Operations department at Slide is looking for an experienced database architect and engineer with a focus on MySQL performance, query review, redundancy, and backup. If you want a hand in scaling out a modern web infrastructure in new and exciting ways, contact us!

You will be responsible for the smooth operation of Slide's database infrastructure, including: coordination and collaboration with developers on queries and feature implementation; management of database instance configuration, grants, replication, failover, and migration; enhancing and evolving a high-performance, redundant, and highly scalable database infrastructure.
 

Requirements:

• 4 years or more of production MySQL architecture experience on Linux.
  
• Solid tuning experience with MySQL, InnoDB, MyISAM and SQL.
  
• Prefer OLTP experience.
  
• Strong foundation of systems operation knowledge.
  
• 5 years or more of general production database administration on various platforms a plus (Oracle, PostgreSQL, Solaris, etc).
  
• Desire to take ownership and work in a collaborative, engineering-focused, fast-paced environment.