Database Administrator

Posted 7 Days Ago
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Cape Town, Western Cape
Senior level
Marketing Tech • Software
The Role
As a Senior Database Administrator at Impact, you will work with the latest technologies to manage and optimize multiple MySQL database instances, proactively plan capacity, monitor performance, develop backups and recovery procedures, and collaborate with developers on schema design. You will also identify performance bottlenecks and database risks.
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Our Company:

At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you!

impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal and Fanatics visit www.impact.com.

Your Role at Impact:

As a Database Administrator at Impact, you will work with the latest technologies that enable near-real time processing of datasets in the Terabytes range and the exciting challenges that come with working with massive amounts of data. You will have the freedom to experiment with the latest technologies with the ultimate goal of scaling our systems linearly.

If you have great ideas and like to think outside the box, we will encourage it and support you, giving you the tools to be successful as we scale Impact. At Impact, your career path is yours to shape, as we encourage cross training into other technologies.

What You'll Do:

  • Administer and support multiple MySQL database clusters in a sharded environment
  • Manage database capacity and usage. Pro-active capacity planning.
  • Query optimization
  • Monitor and optimize database performance
  • Develop backup and recovery procedures
  • Essential Database administration - install, configure, upgrade, backup, partitioning and monitoring of MySQL, MongoDB and Clickhouse database clusters
  • Work with developers during application development life cycle in the design and planning of schema, tables, data types, indexes, procedures and functions
  • Proactively identify performance bottlenecks and database risks

What You Have:

  • Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science or a related field
  • Minimum 2+ years’ experience as a Database Administrator
  • Experience with MySQL / Percona Server 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 8.0 / CloudSQL / AWS RDS
  • Experience with ProxySQL 2.x / Orchestrator, Percona XtraBackup
  • 2+ years of experience in writing Linux shell scripts, perl scripts, Python etc.
  • Experience with High Availability MySQL/Percona environments
  • Experience working with Large Data Volumes - 100’s of Terabytes to Petabytes
  • Strong understanding of InnoDB and InnoDB tuning.
  • Experience working with SingleStore, MongoDB, Clickhouse, Percona XtraDB Cluster, Spanner and Postgres
  • Experience with Puppet, Terraform

Nice to have:

  •  Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits/Perks:

  • Unlimited PTO policy
    • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
  • Training & Development
    • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
    • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
    • Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund
  • Stock Options
    • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
  • Internet Allowance
  • Flexible work hours
  • Casual work environment

Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

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Top Skills

MySQL
Perl
Python
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The Company
HQ: Santa Barbara, CA
1,247 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

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