DataOps Engineer

Tixr's on a mission to transform the ticket buying experience with a modern approach to a legacy business. Born from a fan-focused frame of mind, we empower large-scale events, music venues, and sports properties with modern, innovative solutions to their highly-complex ticketing and e-commerce needs. Our unified commerce platform is built for big, supporting all types of events, from festivals to global arena tours, and an almost limitless suite of commerce offerings beyond admission tickets.

The Opportunity

As a Data Operations Engineer (Database Administrator), you will design, maintain, and optimize database systems to ensure performance at scale and data security. Your role will involve troubleshooting issues, implementing industry best practices, and developing automation solutions.

You will be joining a passionate team that continually pushes the boundaries of technology.

Work-Life

This role is 100% remote with an optional work environment at our Santa Monica office, located on the 3rd Street Promenade. Most teams run West Coast Hours with lots of autonomy. At this time we are only able to hire US Citizens or active US Green Card holders

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional DB Administration experience
• Experience as a Database Administrator, specializing in MySQL (Aurora), PostgreSQL and/or Couchbase at scale.
• Solid understanding of managing databases for large-scale websites.
• Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills regarding query optimization and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with high availability solutions such as replication, routers, and proxies.
• Experience with zero-downtime deployment procedures.
• Strong understanding of monitoring and alerting requirements.
• Demonstrable expertise in administering Linux-based systems.
• Methodical troubleshooting skills, capable of identifying and applying fixes for known issues, with the ability to think creatively when addressing complex challenges.
• Excellent collaboration skills within engineering teams, with the capacity to work independently on projects.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with keen attention to detail.
• Highly energetic, self-motivated, and driven by a strong work ethic

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
• NoSQL experience including: Redis, Graph DBs such as Neo4j and Amazon Neptune, and AWS cloud services.
• In-depth knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, integrity, and SQL.
• Scripting and a strong will to automate. 
• Experience with schema versioning tools such as Flyway and Skeema

The Perks:

• Salary Range $130,000 - $180,000 + Bonus + Equity
• 100% Remote with Hybrid Optional
• Paid Health Benefits
• Dental, Vision, Life plans 
• Open Vacation
• 401k (50% match up to 3%)
• Paid Equipment
• Education Stipend
• Paid Holidays & Birthdays Off
• Parental Leave
• Team Offsites / Events
• Ticket hookups!

Tixr is the largest, fastest-growing, privately-held primary ticketing and live event commerce marketplace in the world. We're a California born and bred company that's still founder owned and led to this day, and we support a global client base with staff throughout the US, Canada, and UK.  We exclusively power 500 of the most respected live entertainment brands in 40 countries including WWT Raceway, Riot Fest, Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, Sturgis Buffalo Chip, Lightning in a Bottle, Portland Trail Blazers’  G League Affiliate Rip City Remix, among many others.