Overview
On Site
USD 160,000.00 - 240,000.00 per year
Full Time
Skills
Real-time
Management
High Availability
SAFE
Finance
API
Analytics
Cloud Computing
Art
Database
Failover
Performance Testing
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Bloomberg
Debugging
Software Development
Replication
Backup Administration
Python
Computer Science
Mathematics
Open Source
MySQL
Kubernetes
Apache Kafka
Apache Spark
Terraform
Ansible
Mentorship
Training
Life Insurance
Job Details
Senior Software Engineer - MySQL Data Infrastructure
Location
New York
Business Area
Engineering and CTO
Ref #
10046723
Description & Requirements
Our financial products rely on petabytes of real-time and historical data. DataHub is Bloomberg's distributed data platform powering that scale-managing billions of row mutations daily across thousands of MySQL/MyRocks shards. We operate at the intersection of high availability, low latency, and massive scale. Your mission: keep this engine fast, safe, and observable as we double in size.
Our Team
We're the team that makes Bloomberg's financial data discoverable, usable, and reliable across the entire company. We organize datasets into structured, schema-evolving, point-in-time-queryable resources, all accessible via a unified API. We run on Kubernetes, automate with Go and Python, and power petabyte-scale analytics with Vitess, Spark, and Kafka. We're a tight-knit group of engineers who contribute upstream, tune clusters across cloud and bare metal, and push the state-of-the-art in database reliability.
What's in it for you
Salary Range = 00 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus
The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
Location
New York
Business Area
Engineering and CTO
Ref #
10046723
Description & Requirements
Our financial products rely on petabytes of real-time and historical data. DataHub is Bloomberg's distributed data platform powering that scale-managing billions of row mutations daily across thousands of MySQL/MyRocks shards. We operate at the intersection of high availability, low latency, and massive scale. Your mission: keep this engine fast, safe, and observable as we double in size.
Our Team
We're the team that makes Bloomberg's financial data discoverable, usable, and reliable across the entire company. We organize datasets into structured, schema-evolving, point-in-time-queryable resources, all accessible via a unified API. We run on Kubernetes, automate with Go and Python, and power petabyte-scale analytics with Vitess, Spark, and Kafka. We're a tight-knit group of engineers who contribute upstream, tune clusters across cloud and bare metal, and push the state-of-the-art in database reliability.
What's in it for you
- You'll get to design for scale - millions of events, thousands of shards, zero downtime
- You'll work with Vitess, MyRocks, and Kubernetes on production systems across regions
- You'll shape the tools and processes that make DataHub's growth sustainable
- You'll have the chance to mentor others while deepening your own systems expertise
- Design, automate, and operate multi-region Vitess-backed MySQL/MyRocks clusters in Kubernetes
- Build internal tools in Go or Python for failover, schema changes, and performance testing
- Harden our CI/CD pipelines and custom K8s operators for infrastructure components
- Partner with engineers across Bloomberg to scale and standardize data operations
- Share your expertise on distributed systems, SLOs, and production debugging
- 4+ years of professional software development and/or SRE experience
- Deep knowledge of MySQL internals, including InnoDB and MyRocks, replication, and backups
- Strong programming skills in Go and/or Python
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
- Contributions to open source projects like MySQL, RocksDB, MyRocks, or Vitess
- Production experience with Kubernetes (Helm, Operators, CRDs)
- Familiarity with Kafka, Spark, or lakehouse architectures
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, OpenTofu)
- A passion for reliability, scale, and mentoring others
Salary Range = 00 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus
The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
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