Couchbase Database Engineer

IDT is looking for a rock star Database Engineer to join our database services team. If you are highly motivated, ambitious, ready to learn and make a direct impact, this is your opportunity!

The individual in this role will perform database analysis, design and administration functions to deliver on strategic projects specific to organizational goals.

The ideal candidate would have in-depth experience with Couchbase / MongoDB technologies in an enterprise environment.

Responsibilities:

• Working with developers for designing database objects and SQL queries.
• Performance monitoring.
• Cluster Software installation, configuration, patches, upgrades.
• Own database changes, tuning and managing XDCR.
• Backup and recovery.
• On call 24/7 support with other team members.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Couchbase Database administration in a production environment.
• Experience with Couchbase clusters, XDCR, optimizing Couchbase queries and indexes, services like Query, Index, Data.
• Good knowledge and experience in Couchbase Troubleshooting, object design and backup / recovery.
• Ability to handle 99.9% uptime and 24/7 support.
• Experience with database clusters hosted on Linux.
• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science or equivalent with a minimum of 6-8 years of overall database administration experience.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with MongoDB / MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle.
• Experience with Amazon RDS platform.
• Prior experience with System / Network administration.

We are pleased to offer:

• Remote work opportunity!
• B2B Employment ($, gross).
• Really good hardware.
• An exciting and challenging job with talented people around.
• Great learning and growth opportunities.
• Compensation for professional training, seminars, and conferences.
• First-class English lessons.

A few words about us:

IDT Corporation is a global communications company founded in 1990 and headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. We are industry leaders in prepaid communication and payment services and one of the largest international voice carriers. We are listed on the NYSE, employ over 1800 people across 20 countries, and have over $1.5 billion in revenues.

We are not ”another big IT corporation”— we encourage and support in-house entrepreneurs in developing their ideas into business actions.

Our flagship brand,Boss Revolution, offers Money Transfer, International Calling, and Mobile Top-Up services and supports IDT’s mission of enabling people to keep in touch and share resources with family and friends worldwide.