Senior Database Administrator/ Engineer

Job Description

ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE

What We Do

We enable Epic's online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.

What You'll Do

We're looking for a Database Administrator / Database Engineer to join our Online Infrastructure Team who will own and manage database systems across Epic and work closely with our internal development teams. Our online team builds services that help power all of our online games such as matchmaking, profile storage, dedicated game servers and more. This role will help this team with items around operational excellence such as observability and performance at scale.

In this role, you will
• Become a subject matter expert on one or more of our database platforms at Epic Games
• Understand the performance and scaling of our databases across multiple microservices
• Develop best practices for one or more of our database platforms at Epic Games
• Provide advice to development teams on data patterns, usage, and implementation
• Develop tools and automations to make our team and customers more efficient
• Mentor and educate the team on your areas of expertise
• Provide troubleshooting and timely resolution of database issues
• Participate in 24x7 on-call incident escalation rotations

What we're looking for
• Experience at scale with multiple cloud database technologies such as DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc
• Deep knowledge of database architecture and implementation, including expertise in schema design, caching strategies, and ensuring high availability
• Extensive experience in scaling cloud database systems, including proficiency in sharding and data partitioning techniques
• Proven experience with Linux, and cloud computing technologies such as AWS, or other cloud computing environment
• Experience with Terraform and Ansible or other IaC technologies
• History working directly with development teams
• Familiarity with data migration and extraction techniques in a zero downtime environment

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

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