PostgreSQL DBA

New York, NY

Job Overview

Do you want to have a direct effect on the future success of a fast growing company? One that is experiencing 135% year over year growth in the fastest growing industry on the web?

If you have the talent and dedication to strive for excellence while also taking initiative in your respective position…Yodle is looking for you.

Yodle is seeking a talented PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join our technology team in New York. Our ideal candidate will have a combination of strong technical skills and customer focus, the ability to thrive in a fast paced environment and learn on the fly.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of Yodle’s database environment.
• Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of our 400+GB production PostgreSQL database.
• Work with software developers to design the best possible database schema for scalability, efficiency and ease of use.
• Analyze usage, make suggestions and implement changes to improve performance, data integrity and ease of use.
• Assist QA and Developers to maintain the development, staging and QA databases.
• Assist and advise the data/analytics and finance team in accessing data for custom reports.

Qualifications:
• Expert-level SQL skills (stored procedures, triggers, rules, user defined data types, user defined aggregates, table partitioning, outer joins, searched cases, etc.)
• Strong understanding of database performance tuning issues/techniques (reading query plans, designing tables/indices for performance, tuning OS/DB configuration)
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL on Linux
• Object-oriented modeling/design skills
• Some experience with OpenSolaris/ZFS a plus
• Some experience with MySQL, Oracle , MongoDB, NoSQL desirable
• Experience at a company using agile development processes
• Strong communication skills
• Bachelors degree

Benefits

Compensation
What we offer to you:
• An opportunity to further enhance your skills and refine your talent
• Competitive base
• Health/Dental benefits, 401 (K) plan
• Great work environment - we have fun!
• Accessible and open-minded leadership
• Opportunity to work with smart people and learn a lot about one of the fastest growing industries

About Yodle
Yodle is a Bessemer ventures funded company in the midst of a major national roll out that will grow our client base dramatically over the next several years. We provide search-engine advertising and online lead generation services to small businesses. Yodle has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online. We provide local businesses with a simple way to cost-effectively acquire more customers by advertising on the major search engines including: Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, and MSN.

Local Search is considered the new frontier in paid search marketing, the fastest growing area of both technology and advertising and the key driver of Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Over $100 billion is spent on local advertising in the U.S alone. $3 billion of that has already transitioned online. A significant opening exists to devise, build, and capitalize on this opportunity within the next 2-4 years.

Yodle Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate based on age, gender, religion, disability, marital status, race and also adheres to laws relating to non-discrimination on the basis of national origin and citizenship status.