Data Engineer Green Dot
Pasadena, CA

Job Description

Job Summary

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting multiple applications and data transfers between internal and client facing applications.

The successful candidate will have hands-on experience in a multitude of domains such as:

* 24x7x365 enterprise and cloud database infrastructure design and management
* Database security, business continuity, and disaster recovery
* Database design, development, tuning, and general database administration

Job Responsibilities

* Design, maintenance, and/or administration with Apache Cassandra, including data modeling and CQL scripting.
* Work with DataStax Enterprise Graph, including Gremlin query language.
* Develop data models, and plan and write high performing queries.
* Help analyze data access patterns and identify hotspots and bottlenecks.
* Plan, coordinate, and administer database/DSE systems, including base definition, structure, documentation, requirements, operational guidelines and protection.
* You'll be doing some administrator tasks for Cassandra, including configuration of Cassandra cluster with mutli-data centers.
* Your tasks will also include performance tuning for memory, troubleshooting, and node rebuild/backup

Job Requirements

* 5+ years of related experience
* Past DB production support experience is helpful
* Experience supporting mission critical, customer facing applications is required
* Prior experience in the following areas is strongly preferred:
* Adding /removing a datacenter
* Adding/removing nodes.
* Replication, database schema, database administration and handling user/application security (Cassandra is a big plus)
* managing storage capacity of systems


* Experience with AWS and/or Azure is required
* Unix/Shell/Java scripting and DB automation experience is required
* Experience with Microsoft .NET Framework (C#, .NET Core) is a plus.
* Knowledge of both Windows and Linux Operating Systems is a plus
* Ability to quickly learn new technologies and business processes/functions is helpful
* Strong analytical skills to determine effective approaches to business solutions is important
* Understanding of database best practices and the ability to promote those best practices in the organization is very important
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field is required