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About Work Market, Inc.
Work Market is a new venture, backed by Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. We are building a modular web platform, designed to power anyone or any business to efficiently deliver and manage labor and services. WM was founded by Jeffrey Leventhal, who previously founded the on-site services marketplace OnForce.com.

Our aspirations are grand, and we have lots to do to win at this and change the world with our labor platform. Here is our commitment to you: You will be surrounded by ambitious, super smart people who like to push the envelope with technology. We’re building stuff that simply has not been built before. In return, we ask that: You be in touch with the real world; you think, live and breathe like a user of our system. We only do well if we develop the best user experiences possible. Applications that touch people as deeply as the stuff we build is as much art as it is science. We’re working hard to build the best technology team ever assembled. So…best team, EVERY labor engagement in one platform – sound crazy? Still interested? Read on…

Responsibilities:

• Manages MySQL databases in Development/QA/Production Linux environments
• Works in collaboration with developers, architects, and business stakeholders to create high-performance, cost-effective solutions
• An active participant in the software release cycle, advising the development team on data architecture
• Works with lead architect to develop sharding and scaling strategies
• Configures production system databases and continually benchmarks systems performance and performs tuning when needed
• Develops a process for maintaining data integrity, error detection and preventing misuses of data
• Designs, implements, maintains and automates appropriate backup and recovery mechanisms
• Builds, manages and deploys Linux based hosting infrastructure

• Researches new database technologies and methodologies

Requirements:

• Experience with large scale database applications using partitioning/federation/sharding/proxying/replication, index tuning, I/O tuning
• Hands-on experience with maintaining 24×7×365 database environments requiring 99.99% availability.
• Strong understanding of master-slave/master-master replication, MySQL engines, index optimizations
• Experience with performance monitoring and tuning, space management, capacity planning and resource utilization management

• Experience building multi-server clusters of Linux based hosting infrastructures

Technical Skills – Required:

• MySQL DBA experience (5+ years)
• Innodb transaction engine (3+ years)
• SQL performance troubleshooting and tuning (5+ years)
• MySQL Admin for database security, performance monitoring, backup, recovery, and archival concepts and procedures (3+ years)
• Replication design (5+ years)
• Partitioning design (5+ years)
• Linux OS (3+ years)
• Amazon EC2 (1+ years)
• Reporting Tools/ Analysis (3+ years)
• PHP/Python/Perl or other scripting language (3+ years)

• Java Web Application Servers (Tomcat/Resin/JBoss) (2+ years)

Our Process
You should expect to meet lots of people on our team during the interview process. Feel free to show off why you’re great. Bring more than just tight code. Tricks? Poetry? Music? Juggling? Well-rounded, interesting and entertaining people are a plus. Start up experience? Been through Plan A, B and C? Did you handle this well? You must be hardworking, easygoing, able to articulate concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences, and have labor/services/the social web/open source in your DNA!

High maintenance people need not apply; if you are accustomed to (or plan on demanding) a laptop, mobile phone plan or shoes for your new job, we are probably not the place for you. Lastly, if you’re the person that is standing outside your building smoking a few times a day, you’re probably not the right person either…

Legal Stuff
Work Market, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer and offers a competitive salary and benefits package. To qualify, an applicant must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident alien (“green card holder”), temporary resident alien, refugee or asylee. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are only able to contact candidates whose qualifications most closely match the position requirements.