Gracenote is seeking a full-time Database Engineer to join our Core Database Team. As part of the Database Team, you will have the opportunity to continue the development and enhancement of Gracenote's world famous CDDB music recognition service, fingerprint matching services, and other leading products. These products power industry leading applications such as Apple iTunes, RealOne, Winamp, and Sony Sonic Stage. Gracenote services are also being delivered in cell phone applications throughout the world, including USA, Brazil, Japan, and Korea.
As a member of Gracenote’s Engineering Department, you will work collaboratively with a team of other engineers to design and develop solutions that are used by millions of users daily. The majority of your direction will come from team leads and your manager and you will have the opportunity to provide significant input into solution design. You will be given responsibility for constructing and owning significant portions of source code and live production systems and you will be expected to refactor and improve these systems over time.
On a technical front, you will be expected to have a solid working understanding of relational databases (Oracle experience is a plus), internet technologies, systems hardware and software infrastructure, and one or more programming languages, plus one or more scripting languages. You will work in a multi-terabyte sized database environment, composed of many servers and hundreds of processes, so it is important that you can conceptualize in terms of “systems” as opposed to single programs. Specific technologies you will be exposed to over time include: Oracle, SQL, perl, XML, XML-RPC, UML, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle APEX, relational database DML and DDL, C, HTML, Java, and UNIX, among others.
The successful candidate will have a solid educational foundation, good communication skills, strong attention to detail and follow-up, the ability to take direction well, plus a strong desire to work in the exciting field of digital music technology.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Four year college degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- Produced one or more commercial applications.
- Proficient Oracle developer, 9i or greater (3+ years of relevant work experience)
- Understands and writes complex SQL.
- Proficient with PL/SQL, debugging techniques, and performance tuning.
- Proficient with UNIX as a development and deployment platform (2+ years of relevant work experience)
- Familiar with Internet Technologies such as HTTP, HTML, XML, ftp, etc.
- Experience using schema design tools such as ERwin or Oracle Designer.
- Experience developing internal reports.
- Working understanding of current software design practices and software project management methodologies, such as agile and waterfall.
- Familiarity with at least one of the following programming languages: Java, C, C++, ruby, python.
- Accepts ownership of important database processes.
- Good communication skills.
- Self motivated.
- Good planning and estimating skills.
- Leads by example.