Senior Database Administrator

Work Market’s labor automation software empowers companies to create, manage & scale their flexible workforce to dramatically improve productivity. We help companies “Uberize” their business. We have incredible momentum which has triggered our need to rapidly scale our Sales organization.

Who We Are: Work Market boasts an impressive engineering team backed by successful and reputable investors such as Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital SoftBank Capital, Industry Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank. We recently received $20 million in Series C funding that is being reinvested back into hiring. Work Market is the leading platform for freelance labor. Our freelance management platform is providing the biggest brands in the world and freelancing businesses, with a solution that allows both sides to manage an end-to-end contract engagement at scale. We are right in the middle of a rapidly growing freelance economy that will make up 50% of the workforce by 2020. What We Do: We enable clients with the ability to expand and contract their workforce based on market demands and allow them to stay relevant and efficient in a competitive marketplace. We provide access to on-demand subject matter experts that allow companies to be productive and efficient. We offer freelancers the ability to have a flexible work schedule and to be selective about their project engagements while also building their portfolio. Our Team: Our engineers build the tools and workflows that allow our customer to be more efficient and productive in a competitive marketplace. We are customer driven, our engineers work closely with the Product team to help define and articulate a vision for the Work Market platform. We focus on providing simple, elegant solutions to complex problems.

What You Will Do: * Be a part of a TechOps team that manages Work Market’s production system * Build, maintain, and expand Work Market's database/datastore infrastructure * Monitor and develop database operation and capacity management plan * Work with developers on performance monitoring and optimization * Work with other teams to develop scripts to automate various database operations

Must Have: * BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, or 4 years of relevant work experience with some of computer science concepts * Curiosity and drive to make things happen and make things move faster. * Excellent oral and written communication Be a team player and work closely with developers and operations. * Excellent hands-on experience in designing and administering MySQL databases * Comfortable with working on on Linux based systems * Experience with MySQL replication, multiple master, backup and recoveries, failover, and HA implementations * Solid experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python * Experience in implementing ETL strategies and processes * Experience with data modeling and schema optimization * Experience/understanding of application framework and object-relational mapping (ORM) such as rails, hibernate and django. * Database and SQL performance tuning, schema refactoring and data migrations * Solid understanding of security around data at rest - access control, data encryption etc. * Database performance monitoring and capacity planning * 24/7 production support and troubleshooting Nice to Have: * Experience with AWS Cloud * Experience managing databases in microservice architecture * Experience with NoSQL or document store * Experience with others open source DBs as well as Amazon database services * Experience with configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef etc) * Good understanding of Data warehouse and big data