I am working for this small "not-really-a-travel-agency" in
Amsterdam for almost 3 years now (Booking.com is part of the
Priceline Group of Companies): We are
reserving hotels rooms for guests using a website, and we sleep
several hundred thousand people, each night.
To accomplish that we are operating a three-digit number of MySQL
database servers on CentOS in about three dozen replication
hierarchies, automating system administration as good as possible
using puppet. Our developers are abusing these boxes using Apache
and mod_perl. Because we are still growing faster than the
market, we are looking for multiple MySQL DBAs. The positions are
based in Amsterdam, NL and Cambridge, UK.
An applicant should have multiple years of experience with MySQL,
with a focus on InnoDB, replication and partitions. Good working
knowledge of …
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Continuent is hiring. The business is growing, the
opportunities are piling up nicely, and we need to beef up
the team with the addition of some new professionals. The mist urgent posts to fill are a QA Engineer and a Support Engineer, both experts of their specific trades and of database clustering. We are looking at the matter without borders. Although it would be preferable to find candidates in the US, and in the … |
It's finally official — please join me in welcoming my new/old colleague Dave Stokes, who just joined the MySQL Community Relations Team at Oracle as the new MySQL community manager for North America. Some of you may remember him from a previous stint at MySQL, where he was in charge of the MySQL certification program. Back then, he was already running the North Texas MySQL Users Group and a regular blogger on Planet MySQL. I am sure we will be seeing much more of these kind of activities from now on. So welcome aboard, Dave! I look forward to working with you.
Oracle is investing in MySQL and is hiring in several areas including consulting, sales and pre-sales. Here are some of our open MySQL positions:
Europe:
Senior Principal Consultants, English and German speakers - Any European location.
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A few days ago, I left the MySQL team at Oracle, after more than
4 years of work dedicated mostly to the MySQL
community. Someone will probably remember that, when I joined MySQL in 2006, I started my work in the QA team. It was no coincidence. My previous work as a consultant was very much focused on database development quality, even when my customers had approached me for different reasons. Let's be frank. I am a minority. It's not common to find someone who is passionate about QA. I am aware of being a rare bird, who likes testing and bug searching, and doing all the little steps that all together improve the overall quality of a software system. I had been thinking about my passion … |
While still a small fraction1 of data management job postings,
the number of job posts that mention "hadoop" continue to grow
steadily. Year-over-year, there were 300% more such job posts2 in
the first seven months of 2010 compared to the same period in
2009:
The fraction of "hadoop" jobs posted by California companies
remain high, but is definitely lower than what it was last year:
(1) Over the last three months, job posts that mention "hadoop" were inching towards 8-10% of the number of job posts that mention "mysql".
(2) Data for this post is for U.S. online job postings through 7/31/2010 and is maintained in partnership with SimplyHired.com. We …
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TheITJobBoard published a report for 18 different types of IT
jobs and what salaries they can expect in different part of the
UK
I made my own analysis for DBAs using the pandora software inside
google spreadsheets
(Please note, that DBAs positions in this survey include
Oracle, MS SQL and MySQL DBAs)
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Elance Cites Surging Demand for MySQL Experts
is an interesting article for several reasons. For many years
advocating Open Source products was seen in many circles of
management as akin to promotion of some sort of social anarchy.
But now they see the cost savings, the performance gains, and the
flexibility that a product like MySQL can provide.
Check out the jobs Elance has for MySQL talent.
DFW MySQL Users!
Monday night at seven will be the next meeting of North Texas
MySQL Meetup. This meeting will not be MySQL-centric but will
discuss creating Facebooks apps and using the …
So, I mentioned earlier that I was looking at Infobright's Brighthouse technology as a storage backend for heaps and heaps of traffic and user data from Habbo. Turns out it works fine (now that it's in V3 and supports more of the SQL semantics), and we took it into use. Been pretty happy with that, and I expect to talk more about the challenge and our solution at the next MySQL Conference in April 2009.
However, our DWH team needs extra help. If you're interested in solving business analytics problems by processing lots of data and the idea of working in a company that leads the virtual worlds industry excites you, …
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Arjen & gang are looking for skilled and enthusiastic
colleagues!
Essentials
- guru level practical skills in MySQL schema/query design,
server administration and tuning;
- expertise with common dev and deployment infrastructure
(mainly Linux but also other *nix and Windows);
- freedom to travel without restriction;
- self-motivated, ability to work independently (from anywhere
- good Internet access required);
- excellent written/verbal English, comfortable public speaker.
Being a small, company, the range of possible work tasks can
be quite diverse, although you are not required to be able to do
everything. That said, your application will be more highly
regarded if you exhibit a broad range of skills and interests,
both directly technical and otherwise.
Desirable abilities
- shell and Perl scripting;
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