Interested in working in a fast-paced start-up environment with lots of growth and learning opportunities? Looking for an opportunity to work with some of the most prominent brands in the world and get exposed to multiple industries? Look no further! Come join us – We can offer you friendly coworkers, food, snacks and coffee straight from our kitchens, office happy hours and fun events. We provide excellent benefits such as health, vision, and dental. We also offer supplemental benefits such as AD&D, life insurance, 401k and much more.

Fuel Cycle is an LA-based SaaS company building customer intelligence solutions for the world’s leading enterprises. With Fuel Cycle, companies rapidly engage and interact with customers for real-time feedback and insights to make better business decisions, grow revenues, and retain customers.

As the MySQL Database Administrator, you will be responsible for database performance and availability issues, optimization based on best practices, and proactive maintenance to ensure database systems integrity, performance, and availability levels meet business and operational needs. In this role, you will be reporting to the VP of Research & Development and collaborating with a team of engineers. This is a wonderful opportunity for someone with strong attention to detail, creative problem-solving skills, rapid adaptation and a desire to make a significant impact.  

• Install, configure, and maintain data structure
• Optimize and tune MySQL performance
• Write queries, views, and stored procedures to satisfy company reporting & analytical needs
• Create and document database procedures and practices
• Ensure security and data integrity of all MySQL instances
• Frequently improve monitoring, perform database capacity and usage planning
• Implement tools to automate database operation and monitoring
• Perform routine, periodic and proactive maintenance
• Backup/recovery, replication, cluster failover and disaster recovery
• Work closely with multiple teams to understand & implement report requirements
• Assist with 3rd party integration 

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in MySQL database administration and/or development eHighly proficient in all aspects of database administration, including backup/recovery/replication, clustering, advanced performance tuning, and proactive monitoring
• Expert knowledge in maintaining, building, supporting, tuning, and monitoring production in MySQL database servers
• Strong understanding of MySQL’s underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB and MyISAM, & replication configuration
• Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements
• Familiarity with other SQL/NoSQL databases such as Firebase, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Understanding of object oriented programming (Java, Python, C)
• Familiarity with Web Services/SOA, XML, SOAP, JSON
• BS in Computer Science and/or equivalent degree is desired, MBA is a plus