Senior Database Engineer

Senior Database Engineer

Shell Recharge Solutions is a leader in delivering the new electric mobility future through innovative software, infrastructure, and professional services that empower utilities, cities, fleets, transit agencies, and automakers to deploy EV charging infrastructure at scale. Our technology is connecting EV infrastructure solutions with public and private charging needs in a safer, cleaner, and smarter way. Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, the company s global footprint spans across three continents with deployments in 13 different countries. At Shell Recharge Solutions, we are looking for candidates who want to be a part of something bigger than themselves passionate, purpose-driven individuals who believe having a career means making a meaningful impact on our business and the world. We believe in creating and doing the right thing through responsible and sustainable EV deployment. We are looking for the innovative, driven to find a solution in a complex and dynamically evolving marketplace and look at no as just a challenge to find the next yes .

Senior Database Engineer!

The ideal candidate is an integral part of a fast-paced development team that builds an integrated product suite of Enterprise applications in the EV Charging network domain. The Candidate will participate in the technical design of database SQL queries for new products, as well as review and tuning database queries in existing products. This candidate works closely with rest of cross-functional team to produce design documents, implement database optimizations, and provide benchmarks. If you find passion in the Company s mission, your qualifications and interest align with the expectations below, we would love to talk to you about this position.

What you ll do:

• The ideal candidate will be an integral part of a fast-paced development team that builds an integrated product suite of Enterprise applications in the EV Charging network domain
• Candidate will participate in the technical design of database/SQL queries for new products, as well as review and tuning database queries in existing solutions
• This candidate will work closely with rest of cross-functional team to produce design documents, implement database optimizations, and provide benchmark metrics
• Design and contribute SQL aspects for web and microservice APIs based applications
• Support Production Database
• Implement DB partitioning, compression and indexing strategies for performance optimization
• Define and execute data archival and deletion activity as per business and legal requirements.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams including our Global Engineering teams in an Agile development environment
• Proven experience successfully optimizing databases for performance & scalability
• Provide queries for ad hoc data requirements.
• Perform or help dev team in DB data migration activities.
• Utilize problem solving skills to implement creative solutions to tough problems
• Advocate for best-in-class database and storage solutions for large scale enterprise applications

What We re Looking For:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in computer science/ engineering or equivalent experience required
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Creating database views, functions, and stored procedures
• Writing optimized SQL queries for integration with other applications
• Creating database triggers for use in automation
• Maintaining data quality and overseeing database security
• Designing database tables and structures
• Experience with GitHub/Bitbucket, Jira, Scrum, SonarCloud and CI/CD processes.
• Experience working on software-as-a-service (SaaS), large scale distributed systems and relational/No-SQL databases
• Experience working in a small team setting along with onshore development team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills: proven ability to lead both vertically and horizontally to achieve results; thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced, environment and do what it takes to deliver results
• Committed to security practices in policy and delivery
• Willing to be a model citizen/mentor in security practices for Shell Recharge Solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in MySQL database management
• Hands on experience with recent versions of MySQL (Prefer AWS RDS MySQL)
• Understanding of MySQLs underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB
• Experience with replication configuration in MySQL
• Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL
• Understanding and experience with AWS RDS, what are the limitations and benefits of RDS in general
• Experience with optimizing indexes and queries
• Understanding the Query Execution Plan
• Experience using MySQL Performance tool like MySQLTuner
• Nice to have - Knowledge of Elastic search and other NoSQL DB like MongoDB etc.

What We Offer:

• A work environment that allows you to work with and learn from some of the best and brightest in this emerging industry
• The ability to make a difference in a world that needs our technology to help reduce carbon emissions and enable a more sustainable energy future through the use of electric vehicle charging software, services and infrastructure
• The freedom to learn, suggest, and implement innovative new ideas applied to our systems, processes, programs and technologies
• Daily ownership of your role in a challenging, high-growth environment.
• A casual work environment and culture that support work life fit , enabling you to fit life into your work and work into your life, i.e. flexible scheduling, virtualization options, and a generous holiday package
• Competitive pay and benefits programs designed to enable you to thrive inside and outside of work
• Participation in Shell Recharge Solutions performance and rewards bonus program
• Best in class medical benefits for employees
• Innovative Paid Time Off Program
• 9/80 Flex Work schedule