DevOps Engineer (Storage & Database)

Storage & Database DevOps Engineer (Mandarin & English)

Location: New York, NY (Onsite)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Compensation

$120,000 - $200,000 annually

About the Opportunity

We are a global technology company operating large-scale digital and social media platforms, and are seeking an experienced Storage & Database DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure engineering team. This role focuses on designing, optimizing, and scaling mission-critical database and storage platforms that support high-traffic applications and services.

The ideal candidate combines strong database and storage expertise with software engineering and DevOps experience, enabling them to build highly available, automated, and scalable infrastructure solutions.

Language Requirement: Professional proficiency in both Mandarin and English is required to support collaboration with global teams and stakeholders who primarily communicate in these languages.

Key Responsibilities

Storage & Database Architecture

• Analyze business and technical requirements to design highly available, scalable, and high-performance storage and database solutions.
• Develop and optimize architectures leveraging technologies such as Redis, MySQL, TiDB, MongoDB, and related data platforms.
• Ensure solutions align with reliability, performance, and operational excellence objectives.

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Drive automation initiatives across deployment, monitoring, alerting, and operational workflows.
• Enhance platform reliability through self-healing capabilities, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Promote DevOps best practices and continuous improvement across database and storage operations.

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Lead complex, cross-functional infrastructure projects from planning through execution.
• Coordinate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to define technical roadmaps and implementation strategies.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and at a high standard of quality.

Innovation & Technical Strategy

• Evaluate emerging storage and database technologies and assess their applicability to business needs.
• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and technical research efforts.
• Provide recommendations on future platform architecture and technology investments.

Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

• Partner with engineering and business teams to provide technical guidance and support.
• Contribute to internal training, documentation, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Foster technical excellence and continuous learning across the organization.

Required Qualifications

Technical Expertise

• Strong experience with one or more of the following technologies: Redis/Tair, MySQL, TiDB, MongoDB, S3-compatible object storage solutions, Graph databases (e.g., Nebula Graph)
• Deep understanding of database architecture, performance tuning, transaction management, replication, and high-availability design.

Software Development

• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience building internal platforms, middleware, database management systems, or infrastructure tooling is highly preferred.

Communication & Collaboration

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Professional proficiency in both Mandarin and English.

Business & Problem Solving

• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience supporting large-scale, business-critical applications is preferred.

Project Leadership

• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and manage competing priorities.
• Experience coordinating resources and driving projects to successful completion.

Continuous Learning & Innovation

• Passion for emerging technologies and continuous improvement.
• Contributions to open-source projects, technical publications, patents, or similar industry involvement are a plus.