Database Engineer

SHEIN U.S.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Free weekly catered lunch

Dog-friendly office (on select sites)

Job summary

SHEIN U.S. is seeking a Database Engineer for its San Diego corporate office to maintain scalable production databases and ensure zero-downtime operations.

You will join the DBRE team responsible for reliability, performance, and security, working with DBA/SRE disciplines across distributed environments. This role requires MySQL expertise, cloud experience, scripting, and collaboration with remote teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline.
• MySQL experience in production environments.
• Experience with Azure or other cloud providers.
• Understanding of distributed/replicated database topologies.
• Strong problem-solving and ownership mindset.
• Experience monitoring and optimizing system performance.
• Solid Linux knowledge to deploy open-source software.
• Proficiency in multiple scripting languages (Go/Python/Shell).
• Desire to tackle scale and complexity to improve services.
• Ability to stay calm during crises and collaborate with remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain scalable, reliable production database environments.
• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve issues.
• Tune performance, queries, and indexes.
• Build tools and scripts to automate operations.
• Provide database design guidance with development teams.
• Handle upgrades and migrations; monitor performance.
• Triage incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Capacity planning and benchmarking across databases.
• Assess data integrity, availability, security, and privacy.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support on pager rotation.

Skills

Scripting languages

Cloud / Azure

Distributed databases

Linux knowledge

Problem solving / ownership

Communication

Remote cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or equivalent

Tools

MySQL

Percona Server

ClickHouse

MongoDB

StarRocks

Orchestrator

Ghost

Job description

About SHEIN

SHEIN is a global online fashion and lifestyle retailer, offering SHEIN branded apparel and products from global network of vendors, all at affordable prices. Headquartered in Singapore, SHEIN remains committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all, promoting its industry-leading, on demand production methodology, for a smarter, future-ready industry. Founded in 2012, SHEIN has more than 16,000 employees operating from offices around the world, and continues to expand operations globally. Join SHEIN and be the future!

About SHEIN

SHEIN is a global online fashion and lifestyle retailer, offering SHEIN branded apparel and products from global network of vendors, all at affordable prices. Headquartered in Singapore, SHEIN remains committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all, promoting its industry-leading, on demand production methodology, for a smarter, future-ready industry. Founded in 2012, SHEIN has more than 16,000 employees operating from offices around the world, and continues to expand operations globally. Join SHEIN and be the future!

Position Summary

We are looking for a Database Engineer with experience working in large-scale mission-critical environments with zero downtime for our San Diego-based corporate office. The SHEIN DBRE team is a mix of DBA/SRE/DBRE oriented folks whose overarching goal is to provide highly available data services at scale. They strive to build an extremely reliable, performant, and secure database infrastructure through the skillful use of automation. This team is responsible for providing new architectures and scalability solutions to ever-growing business and data processing needs. Our ideal candidate has a strong understanding of database fundamentals and how the properties of different database systems interact with applications and operating systems. You will be working onsite on a distributed team, with access to multiple customer environments.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintaining scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments.
• Monitoring for problems and diagnosing and addressing those problems as needed.
• Performance tuning, query optimization, and index tuning.
• Building database tools and scripts to simplify, automate, to reduce operation toil.
• Responsible for working with development teams and engineers to provide a database design guidance.
• Handle Database upgrades and migrations, while monitoring and improving database performance.
• Triage and solve database issues, drive incidents until resolution and employ measures to prevent recurrence.
• Do capacity planning benchmarking on various databases.
• Provide assessments of data integrity, high availability, data security, and privacy.
• Provide 24x7 escalated on-call support on a pager rotation.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline.
• MySQL specific database experience.
• Experience using Azure or any other cloud provider.
• A solid understanding of distributed/replicated database topologies.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, combined with a sense of ownership and drive.
• Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance and scalability.
• Good understanding of Linux system, ability to deploy open-source software independently.
• Proficient in more than one scripting language (golang/python/shell, etc.).
• A strong desire to be challenged by problems of scale and complexity to make our service better for our customers.
• The ability to remain calm in the face of extreme crises.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work effectively with geographically remote teams.

Nice to have

• Fluency in Mandarin
• Experience managing MySQL / Percona Server 8 at scale.
• Experience managing distributed database, like Clickhouse, Hbase, MongoDB and Starrocks etc.
• Experience with Percona tools, Orchestrator, Ghost etc.

Benefits And Perks

• Bonus eligible
• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs)
• Health Savings Account with Employer Funding
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent care)
• Company-Paid Basic Life/AD&D insurance
• Company-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Voluntary Benefit Offerings (Voluntary Life/AD&D, Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, and Accident)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Business Travel Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan with discretionary company match and access to a financial advisor
• Vacation, paid holidays, floating holiday and sick days
• Employee discounts
• Free weekly catered lunch
• Dog-friendly office (available at select locations)
• Free gym access (available at select locations)
• Free swag giveaways
• Annual Holiday Party
• Invitations to pop-ups and other company events
• Complimentary daily office snacks and beverages

Pay Range: $86,400 USD - $138,000 USD