Data Reliability Engineering at Bungie is a core team of the Central Tech area that keeps our games and internal tooling running at scale. Our team owns the overall architecture, scalability, observability and resilience of the databases, data processing platforms and in-memory key-value stores used throughout the Bungie ecosystem. We work in partnership with many varied engineering teams and contribute to projects, services, designs, and processes with the aim to steward good architecture and provide tools and services to enable software engineering teams to meet their design requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Help design, operate, and maintain a data tier that meets the demands of millions of concurrent users

Work with the latest database technologies on cutting-edge hardware

Be a Microsoft SQL expert to engineering teams to provide feedback on design, conduct code reviews, and troubleshoot internal and live systems

Help maintain systems across a wide range of scale, from the dozens of internal tools that help our day-to-day workflows, to the giant production systems under the load of millions of game’s players

Be part of an on-call rotation and do occasional off-hours systems maintenance

REQUIRED SKILLS

Extensive experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in mission critical environments (SQL 2016+ experience required)

Knowledge of SQL internals, monitoring, performance tuning, and both how to write T-SQL queries and help others tune theirs to get the best possible performance

Hands-on experience in troubleshooting and solving SQL performance problems at large scale (e.g., hundreds of databases and hundreds of TBs of information)

Willingness to be part of a “we” culture where you work well with others to reach common goals—team fit and culture are very important to us

NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS

Familiarity with NoSQL database systems and/or technologies such as Elasticsearch, Graphite, Redis, MongoDB, etc.

Experience with Windows Failover Clustering

Familiarity with big data technologies such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Kafka, Hive, Pig, etc.

Development experience with PowerShell (or equivalent script languages), C# or other .NET languages

Experience with Linux system administration and scripting languages such as Python and Bash

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.$129,000—$155,000 USD