Database Administrator

Requisition Number: 173777

Position Title: Software Engineer III

External Description:

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

We are EA

And we make games – how cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is hard work. That’s why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

The Challenge Ahead

The commerce and identity team is part of EADP (EA digital platform) which is tasked to develop one of the largest eCommerce and Identity platforms to power hundreds of cross-platform games played by hundreds of millions of players. The distributed online platform is responsible for providing foundation services to games including identity management, authentication, authorization, account security, subscription, billing, payment, virtual currency, provisioning, entitlement, risk and fraud at 24x7 with 99.99% reliability. Open-source cutting-edge technologies are widely used such as docker, MySQL, MemCached, Redis, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Spark and etc. This is a unique opportunity to work on online space for a great game company.  Looking forward to joining us to be a full-stack engineer.

What a DBA does at EA C&I team

The successful candidate for this position will serve as a Database Administrator and Storage Architect in the Commerce and Identity team. The candidate will be responsible for design, architect, implement and maintain highly performing, highly scalable, highly available and security data storage for identity and commerce services, including but not limited to MySQL/AWS Aurora/Cassandra/Redis/AWS ElasticCache etc. Also, the candidate will be involved in the whole life cycle of these technologies including planning, development, maintenance and troubleshooting of live-site issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect DB storage to be highly scalable and available
• Working with engineering leaders to set up process to safeguard integrity, performance and availability of the storage service
• Design DB level solutions based on the requirements from feature teams
• Setup/Monitor and maintain the 24*7 running of all DB instances.
• Seamless patching and version upgrade of all DB instances.
• Capacity planning for game launch seasons and big title launches.
• Proactive tune parameters for all supporting DB instances to ensure max performance achieved
• Write technical documents to ensure knowledge is well preserved
• Control access permissions and privilege. Ensure all accesses are permitted and well logged for auditing purposes
• Support team members to execute pre-permitted ad hoc DB queries for analysis purposes
• Review DB schema changes from team members and provide professional feedback
• Proactively analysis and troubleshoot any DB related live-site issues

Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or Electronic Engineering
• Strong understanding of MySQL and related techniques
• English communication skill is a plus
• Familiar with one of the script languages like bash/python/perl/…
• Familiar with Linux
• Understanding of other storage layer techniques like Oracle/AWS Aurora/Cassandra/Redis is a plus
• Familiar with C/C++/Java is a plus
• Familiar with AWS cloud technologies is a plus
• Passionate to be a DBA and eager to learn and improve
• Ability to quickly learn complex systems and new technologies
• Exceptional analytical and creative problem solving skills

       …and, in general, the potential to sweep us off our feet! 

 

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

EEOText: 关于 EA 在 Electronic Arts，我们的宗旨是“激励世界，同享乐游”。我们让兼具创意、创新和激情的人才共聚一堂，为世界各地的亿万名玩家创造非凡的全新游戏体验。我们知道我们的长处在于员工的多样性。我们保证员工处于包容的文化之中，为其提供学习和领导的机会，让其从事职业生涯中最有影响力、最有价值的工作。 我们把我们的员工放在首位。我们为员工提供全面的、着重于健康和福祉的福利保障，以满足您的需求，并帮助您平衡您的职业生涯和个人生活。我们提供充满活力和共同协作的工作环境，您可通过我们的员工资源小组进行联系和贡献，享受带薪休假、产假和育儿假来平衡工作与生活，另外还有免费的电子游戏等更多福利！ Electronic Arts 是一个机会平等的雇主。所有招聘决定均不考虑种族、肤色、国籍、血统、生理性别、社会性别、性别认同或表达、性向、年龄、遗传信息、宗教信仰、残障状况、医疗状况、怀孕状况、婚姻状况、家庭状况、退伍军人身份或其他任何受法律保护的特征等因素的影响。EA 还会遵照相关法律，为符合条件的残障个体改善工作环境。

Days Open: 70

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA 是一个奉行机会均等的雇主。 所有招聘决定均不考虑种族、肤色、国籍、血统、生理性别、社会性别、性别认同或表达、性向、年龄、遗传信息、宗教信仰、残障状况、医疗状况、怀孕状况、婚姻状况、家庭状况或退伍军人身份等因素的影响。 EA 还会遵照相关法律，为符合条件的残障个体改善工作环境。