Data Reliability Engineer

Data Reliability Engineering at Bungie is a core team of the Central Tech area that keeps our games and internal tooling running at scale. Our team owns the overall architecture, scalability, observability and resilience of the databases, data processing platforms and in-memory key-value stores used throughout the Bungie ecosystem. We work in partnership with many varied engineering teams and  contribute to projects, services, designs, and processes with the aim to steward good architecture and provide tools and services to enable software engineering teams to meet their design requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Help design, operate, and maintain a data tier that meets the demands of millions of concurrent users
• Work with the latest database technologies on cutting-edge hardware
• Be a Microsoft SQL expert to engineering teams to provide feedback on design, conduct code reviews, and troubleshoot internal and live systems
• Help maintain systems across a wide range of scale, from the dozens of internal tools that help our day-to-day workflows, to the giant production systems under the load of millions of game’s players
• Be part of an on-call rotation and do occasional off-hours systems maintenance

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Extensive experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in mission critical environments (SQL 2016+ experience required)
• Knowledge of SQL internals, monitoring, performance tuning, and both how to write T-SQL queries and help others tune theirs to get the best possible performance
• Hands-on experience in troubleshooting and solving SQL performance problems at large scale (e.g., hundreds of databases and hundreds of TBs of information)
• Willingness to be part of a “we” culture where you work well with others to reach common goals—team fit and culture are very important to us

NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS

• Familiarity with NoSQL database systems and/or technologies such as Elasticsearch, Graphite, Redis, MongoDB, etc.
• Experience with Windows Failover Clustering
• Familiarity with big data technologies such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Kafka, Hive, Pig, etc.
• Development experience with PowerShell (or equivalent script languages), C# or other .NET languages
• Experience with Linux system administration and scripting languages such as Python and Bash