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Senior Database Replication Engineer

Schooner provides high-availability MySQL and NoSQL software distributions for demanding mission-critical applications. SchoonerSQL™ and Schooner Membrain™ include high-performance replication that guarantees no lost or stale data, provides instant automated failover and recovery, and simplifies cluster administration. Schooner software gets the most out of HDDs and SANs and even more from flash memory or Flashcache, enabling dramatic datacenter footprint reductions and less sharding. Customers rely on Schooner to slash the downtime that costs revenue, customers, and reputation, and to cut spending on servers and the power, pipe, and people to run them.

Schooner is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California. Our development team is mainly in Sunnyvale, with key staff in Texas and North Carolina, and with a corps of dedicated contractors in our extended team worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Quickly get up to speed on Schooner's patent-pending replication and clustering technology
• Design and develop new features and components for SchoonerSQLworking with a team of extremely skilled engineers
• Study, prototype, and improve the replication sub-system throughput for LAN, MAN. and WAN configurations
• Work with Support team to ensure customers have the highest quality experience with Schooner clustering solutions
• Develop and enhance unit tests and distributed test suites for replication features developed; utilize build and test automation for high quality software

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in database product development
• Expertise in replication technologies used in database management systems (e.g., group/master/two-tier)
• In-depth understanding of database serialization, consistency, versioning
• Strong experience in multi-threading and working with distributed development is essential
• Strong self-starter with track record of accomplishment
• A background in distributed systems, consensus protocols, group communication, and compression is a plus
• A background in networking protocols such as point-to-point, reliable multicast, and tree spanning is a plus
• BSCS or equivalent preferred
• MySQL expertise is a nice plus but not required

Schooner has an employee-oriented team culture, competitive salaries, pre-IPO stock option plans, excellent benefits, and offers the opportunity to influence the evolution of Schooner's products. The right candidate will make a real contribution to our success, and see the impact of his or her work.