Job Description
Who You Are
Interested in managing opensource relational and document-oriented databases and the code that interacts with them?
As a Senior Database Engineer you will resolve any inefficient queries that appear in the logs and initiate updates to the latest database version. You will be responsible for performing data transfers between open source databases such as Postgres/MySQL, SQL Server, and MongoDB databases. You will collaborate with other highly technical engineering staff to accomplish project tasks.
#Dice #BI-Hybrid
What You'll Do
Qualifications - We encourage you to apply if you think your experience may be a match, even if you do not meet all of the qualifications.
Who We Are
At Vail, we believe in the unique power of voice interactions to create more expressive, more intimate, and more efficient interpersonal interactions. Using Vail technology, we make millions of voice interactions better every day. We process around 10% of all toll-free call traffic in the U.S; 1 in 10 times when someone calls a customer support hotline Vail is routing or interacting with that call.
We are rapidly growing across multiple dimensions, including our customer base, the scope of products we offer, and the size of our team. Now is the right time for a strong candidate to join and grow with us. We have a supportive culture where employees are encouraged to achieve both personal and team goals because we believe growth leads to both business impact and personal fulfillment.
We offer competitive compensation and affordable benefits with flexibility and choice to meet individual and family (including Domestic Partnerships) needs including:
• Multiple medical, dental, and vision plan options
• Company-paid life insurance, short and long-term disability
• 401(k) savings plan with company match (50% on first 6% of employee contribution)
• 31 days total annual PTO
• Annual Bonus Program
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Relocation allowance
• Employee referral bonus
• Gym membership
• Technical and Professional Development stipend
We are striving to implement and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment for all employees by sourcing underrepresented groups and continually empowering those individuals within our organization to further enrich Vail's communication solutions. We recognize that equitable and unique individuals benefit our teams' problem-solving, innovation and development efforts.
Our offices are located in Deerfield and Chicago, IL. Interviews and onboarding are conducted in our offices when possible. We observe a hybrid work format that provides employees flexibility to collaborate with team members based on business needs.
Interested in managing opensource relational and document-oriented databases and the code that interacts with them?
As a Senior Database Engineer you will resolve any inefficient queries that appear in the logs and initiate updates to the latest database version. You will be responsible for performing data transfers between open source databases such as Postgres/MySQL, SQL Server, and MongoDB databases. You will collaborate with other highly technical engineering staff to accomplish project tasks.
#Dice #BI-Hybrid
What You'll Do
- Maintain the physical data model, queries, and service interface for the loading, querying, and maintenance of data in Postgres database and other data sources. It is essential to have coding experience to be able to handle ETL processes and data validation, with either proprietary database languages or other programming languages, such as Java, Python, Scala, or Perl.
- Complete version upgrades, patching, migrations, seeding, testing, and performance monitoring.
- Optimize performance, design indexing strategies, identify patterns in MongoDB document schemas, and manage security and availability of MongoDB clusters.
- Create and execute backup design and disaster recovery plans.
- Work with project and technical managers for project planning, predict storage growth, perform database version upgrade and storage expansion.
- Define, develop, document, communicate and implement standards, processes and procedures for the Database Administration Team.
- Export data out to be loaded into our data warehouse. Improve ETL processes that interact with Microsoft SQL Servers. Write scripts and schedule jobs.
Qualifications - We encourage you to apply if you think your experience may be a match, even if you do not meet all of the qualifications.
- 4-6+ years of experience as a Database Administrator.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or another related field.
- Experience with MongoDB replica set configuration and management.
- Proficiency administering PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other non-relational databases.
- Understanding of SQL tuning and optimization of query plans.
- Linux shell scripting skills and experience with production Linux environments.
- Experience working with software engineers in a highly technical environment.
- Database developing and programming skills with either SQL, Java, C++, Python, Scala, or Perl.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Who We Are
At Vail, we believe in the unique power of voice interactions to create more expressive, more intimate, and more efficient interpersonal interactions. Using Vail technology, we make millions of voice interactions better every day. We process around 10% of all toll-free call traffic in the U.S; 1 in 10 times when someone calls a customer support hotline Vail is routing or interacting with that call.
We are rapidly growing across multiple dimensions, including our customer base, the scope of products we offer, and the size of our team. Now is the right time for a strong candidate to join and grow with us. We have a supportive culture where employees are encouraged to achieve both personal and team goals because we believe growth leads to both business impact and personal fulfillment.
We offer competitive compensation and affordable benefits with flexibility and choice to meet individual and family (including Domestic Partnerships) needs including:
• Multiple medical, dental, and vision plan options
• Company-paid life insurance, short and long-term disability
• 401(k) savings plan with company match (50% on first 6% of employee contribution)
• 31 days total annual PTO
• Annual Bonus Program
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Relocation allowance
• Employee referral bonus
• Gym membership
• Technical and Professional Development stipend
We are striving to implement and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment for all employees by sourcing underrepresented groups and continually empowering those individuals within our organization to further enrich Vail's communication solutions. We recognize that equitable and unique individuals benefit our teams' problem-solving, innovation and development efforts.
Our offices are located in Deerfield and Chicago, IL. Interviews and onboarding are conducted in our offices when possible. We observe a hybrid work format that provides employees flexibility to collaborate with team members based on business needs.