Senior Database Engineer/ ETL Experience, Bay Area, CA

OPPORTUNITY
An exciting opportunity to join one of the world’s leading entertainment technology companies in the CA Bay Area – building innovative software that is changing the way entertainment is delivered and consumed.  Our products are fueling the revolution in music, video and digital movies – via iTunes and beyond.
Professionally, this is an opportunity to be a part of a world class development team and have your name associated with well-known consumer software being used by your friends and family, as well as the world at large -- 235 million customers in 200 countries! 

Additionally, it is an opportunity to build software for and collaborate on the R&D efforts with the world’s most famous entertainment technology brands like Apple, BMG, EMI, Yamaha, Sony, Pioneer, Disney, Warner, as well as F500 brands like Amazon, Daimler, Lexus, Nokia, Yahoo, Intel and many others.

We are looking for a top-notch fast learning and self-starter type Senior Database Engineer to join our Engineering Team. Our ideal candidate is somebody who is craving challenging creative technical work (taming several terabyte-sized Databases!) in the world’s most exciting (Entertainment!) market while being employed by a stable profitable company.

Imagine coming to work every day and being paid for building software that enhances your personal music, video and movies experiences! Imagine being in the know on the latest news in the entertainment industry content management and distribution of the world’s most celebrated labels and fabled artists! Imagine sharing your work and passion with the colleagues in Europe and Asia Pac! If this sounds like fun, let us tell you more…
 
POSITION DESCRIPTION
A Senior Database Engineer to join our Database Engineering Team working on the ETL components of the Content Ingestion platform. As part of Database Engineering, you will have the opportunity to continue the development and enhancement of several terabyte-sized Oracle databases that serve as the foundation data stores for the company’s famous music recognition service as well as a leading Video DVD recognition service and audio fingerprint matching service. 

RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Senior Database Engineer, you will be responsible for building ETL solutions to deal with the wide variety of content feeds that need to be integrated with Company’s Media Database. These feeds arrive in a wide variety of formats, from TSV to XML, and include multi-byte textual data and binary data. You must be able to analyze data feeds, decide the best course of action for integration, and if necessary, build extensions to the ETL platform. If required, you will design and develop new Oracle Database schema, SQL and PL/SQL, as well as programs and scripts in languages like Java, Ruby, and Perl. You will be challenged on a daily basis with hard technical problems, not all of which can be solved with pure database programming. Many times you’ll need to solve a problem outside of the Media Database. Your work will be roughly 20% technical leadership and 80% hands-on design and development, though this can change from day-to-day based on project needs.
 
To be successful in this role, you must be a fast learner and self-starter, be adept at learning complex programs and systems by reading source code, and have the ability handle rapidly changing project requirements. Lastly, you must have a strong desire to work in the field of digital music technology and be passionate about working with music and video metadata.
 
JOB REQUIREMENTS
• B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Management Information Systems, or equivalent
• Produced three or more complex commercial software applications or software technologies
• Expert in software design practices (8+ years)
• Expert knowledge of database technologies and development methodologies (8+ years)
• Deep experience database programming, debugging techniques, and performance tuning, preferably Oracle 10g (8+ years)
• Strong experience solving Data Conversion, Validation, Transformation, and Load (ETL) problems using technologies such as Java, XML, XSLT, Perl, and RDBMSs (6+ years)
• Experience with commercial-grade ETL software such as Pentaho/Informatica/Telend
• Experience with at least two of the following programming languages (6+ years):   Java, C, C++, Python, Perl, Ruby, Php
• Experience with UNIX as a development and deployment platform (6+ years)
• Good knowledge of Internet Technologies (4+ years)
• Excellent ability to learn systems and processes by reading code
• Experience using source code control software such as Perforce or Cvs
• Excellent track record of defining and meeting customer-facing commitments
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Good planning and estimating skills
• Self motivated, works independently
• Generates, enhances, and promotes new ideas
• Watches for changing conditions and plans adaptations
• Accepts ownership of important database processes
• Recognizes problems and helps group adapt
• Leads by example
 
DESIRED CABILITIES
• Practical working experience with relational databases like Postgres, MySQL, DB2, Firebird
• Practical working experience with XML and related technologies (XSLT, XSD, DTD)
• Knowledge of multi-byte character sets, like UTF-8, Shift JIS, and Big5

COMPENSATION
Excellent compensation package and outstanding benefits.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Natasha Krol
Managing Partner
Alexander & Krol Executive Search, LLC
1325 Howard Avenue, # 326
Burlingame, CA 94010
natasha@alexanderandkrol.com
phone 650.759.8252
fax     208.712.0241