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Senior / Lead Cloud Database Administrator (Cloud DBA)

4 months ago

Las Vegas, United States Skillz Full time
Join Skillz and Level Up Your Career

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide. Skillz is revolutionizing the gaming industry, providing the ultimate platform for competitive mobile games. By fostering social competition within games, Skillz empowers developers to create multi-million dollar franchises while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition.

At Skillz, we firmly believe that everyone is born with unique skills and deserves to experience an epic win. We understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. That's why we passionately champion game developers and players alike, empowering them to unleash their full potential through the power of competition.

Life @ Skillz

  • Culture of Impact: Join a united team of builders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz, we create value and make a difference in the world.

  • Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision expenses for both you and your entire family. Additionally, take advantage of our 401K matching, equity incentives, pre-tax benefit options, and more. 

  • Wellness Support: Enhance your well-being with our array of wellness initiatives, including meditation and mental health resources, physical fitness coaching and classes, family planning assistance, health and parenting guidance, virtual therapy sessions, and more.

  • Perks: We believe in enhancing your work experience. Enjoy daily breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, Friday Happy Hours, a full-size gym with showers, commuter benefits, insurance, and many more. We also offer competitive paid time off (PTO) & company holidays to help you recharge and pursue your passions.

Why Skillz?

  • Pioneers of Skill-Based Competition: Skillz is not just any company in the gaming industry; we are the pioneers of skill-based competition, partnered with industry titans like UFC, NFL, T-Mobile, Buzztime, Bowlero, while also hosting renowned events like the Game Developer Conference (GDC). Join us in transforming the way people play games and building the home of competition for all.

  • Impact Beyond Gaming: Skillz harnesses the power of its platform to support nonprofit organizations such as Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, the NAACP, and more. By participating in Skillz tournaments, you can make a difference and contribute to causes you care about.

  • Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, CNBC's Disruptor 50, San Francisco Business Times' Best Places to Work, Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000 list, and many more.

  • Talent Magnet: Join a team of talented professionals who are passionate about what they do. Our team includes experts from Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter (X), Roblox, Zynga, Samsung, Lyft, EA, Riot, Nexon, Gameskraft, PlayStation, Unity, Scopely, Tinder, Intel, Deloitte, EY, Twitch, DraftKings, and more.

The Future of Gaming Awaits

The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books combined, with over 3 billion active gamers playing monthly and over 25 million active developers worldwide. Mobile gaming, in particular, is the fastest-growing segment, projected to reach $300 billion by 2025. At Skillz, you have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this exciting industry and shape its future. 

Job Description:

As a DBA here at Skillz, you will play a major role in defining the database strategy across the company. You’ll work hand-in-hand with the Head of Infrastructure to modernize our database architecture. As we scale the business, you will focus on identifying ways to maintain the security, stability, and performance of our databases while managing costs. Additionally, you’ll collaborate directly with engineers to disseminate best practices and provide guidance on schema design and query optimization.

What you'll do:
  • Plan and execute the migration of a legacy RDS MySQL database to Aurora MySQL.
  • Work with engineering to provide guidance on schema design and query optimization.
  • Ensure minimal downtime during database upgrades.
  • Act as the subject matter expert for all aspects of our operational MySQL databases.
  • Monitor and maintain database health across the cluster.
  • Effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
  • Set the bar for operational excellence and drive improvements in customer SLAs and system KPIs.
Qualifications:
  • Able to work in-office 5 days a week in San Mateo or Las Vegas (relocation assistance available for brand new Vegas HQ)
  • Experience in the Gaming Industry (ideally). Alternatively - experience with Unity and a passion for building services for games.
  • [Senior] 6+ years of experience in administering databases serving large distributed systems. [Lead] 9+ years of experience in database administration.
  • 6+ years of SQL experience. General familiarity with AWS RDS MySQL and ideally Aurora MySQL.
  • Extensive experience debugging and tuning performance on large databases serving distributed systems. Knowledge of database security best practices.
  • Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Golang or Python.
  • [Senior] Ability to execute projects with minimal oversight. [Lead] Ability to work autonomously and curate and execute project plans with minimal input.
  • [Senior] Experience optimizing query performance and application access patterns to promote system health. [Lead] Experience in setting the team's data modeling strategy (schema, query, partition strategy).
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a technical field of study, or equivalent industry experience
Bonus Points:
  • Familiarity with the general AWS landscape (EC2, MSK, EKS, S3, Redis).
  • Experience in building and optimizing data pipelines (Airflow, Kafka, Flink, CDC) and data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift).
  • Experience with other database systems like DynamoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch.
Join Skillz and Let's Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming 

Together, we'll create a world where skill, passion, and innovation thrive. Join our team and be part of the journey. We look forward to having you on board

Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.