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Headquartered in Singapore, SHEIN remains committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all, promoting its industry-leading, on demand production methodology, for a smarter, future-ready industry. Founded in 2012, SHEIN has more than 16,000 employees operating from offices around the world, and continues to expand operations globally. Join SHEIN and be the future!\nPosition Summary \nWe are looking for a Database Engineer with experience working in large-scale mission-critical environments with zero downtime for our San Diego-based corporate office. The SHEIN DBRE team is a mix of DBA/SRE/DBRE oriented folks whose overarching goal is to provide highly available data services at scale. They strive to build an extremely reliable, performant, and secure database infrastructure through the skillful use of automation.\nThis team is responsible for providing new architectures and scalability solutions to ever-growing business and data processing needs. 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You will be working onsite on a distributed team, with access to multiple customer environments.\n Job Responsibilities \nMaintaining scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments. \nMonitoring for problems and diagnosing and addressing those problems as needed. \nPerformance tuning, query optimization, and index tuning. \nBuilding database tools and scripts to simplify, automate, to reduce operation toil. \nResponsible for working with development teams and engineers to provide a database design guidance. \nHandle Database upgrades and migrations, while monitoring and improving database performance. \nTriage and solve database issues, drive incidents until resolution and employ measures to prevent recurrence. \nDo capacity planning benchmarking on various databases. \nProvide assessments of data integrity, high availability, data security, and privacy. \nProvide 24x7 escalated on-call support on a pager rotation.\n Job Requirements \nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline.\nMySQL specific database experience.\nExperience using Azure or any other cloud provider. \nA solid understanding of distributed/replicated database topologies.\nSystematic problem-solving approach, combined with a sense of ownership and drive.\nTrack record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance and scalability.\nGood understanding of Linux system, ability to deploy open-source software independently.\nProficient in more than one scripting language (golang/python/shell, etc.).\nA strong desire to be challenged by problems of scale and complexity to make our service better for our customers.\nThe ability to remain calm in the face of extreme crises.\nGood verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work effectively with geographically remote teams. \nNice to have\nFluency in Mandarin\nExperience managing MySQL / Percona Server 8 at scale. \nExperience managing distributed database, like Clickhouse, Hbase, MongoDB and Starrocks etc.\nExperience with Percona tools, Orchestrator, Ghost etc.\nBenefits and Perks \nBonus eligible\nHealthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs) \nHealth Savings Account with Employer Funding \nFlexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent care) \nCompany-Paid Basic Life/AD&D insurance \nCompany-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability \nVoluntary Benefit Offerings (Voluntary Life/AD&D, Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, and Accident) \nEmployee Assistance Program \nBusiness Travel Accident Insurance \n401(k) Savings Plan with discretionary company match and access to a financial advisor \nVacation, paid holidays, floating holiday and sick days \nEmployee discounts \nFree weekly catered lunch \nDog-friendly office (available at select locations) \nFree gym access (available at select locations) \nFree swag giveaways \nAnnual Holiday Party \nInvitations to pop-ups and other company events \nComplimentary daily office snacks and beverages\nPay Range\n$86,400—$138,000 USD","description_format":"text","description_chars":4368,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Company events"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Apparel & Fashion Brands"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-12T18:11:30Z"}],"liveness":{"score":12,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.354,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":47,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":138000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/shein-database-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/shein-database-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T01:03:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1107,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3893,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}