I am with a silicon valley, bleeding-edge startup requiring some fancy,
innovative database techniques in order to address its core requirement
- highly frequent, dynamic schema growth driven by end-users, on an
as needed basis. Most of the changes are "adds" versus
"updates/deletes".
I am looking for a database guru to join as a "Chief Database
Architect / CTO" (Job description below). Please forward this to
anyone with suitable qualifications.
*****Job Description*****
A silicon-valley, early stage startup seeks a database expert with
in-depth knowledge of databases/database theory, and has skills to
tackle unique challenges posed by the business problem being addressed
by this startup.
If you are ambitious...are desirous of a chance to place your marker in
the world...driven to make it happen...and...can withstand the pains of
getting there.
Biz Opportunity
A key area of enterprise daily operations is still stuck with first
generation technology. It fails to mirror the natural way business is
conducted. In many ways, end-users are held hostages by the
inflexibility of this first-gen paradigm, unable to change the key
business practices to better reflect operational realities. Result is
poor performance and productivity.
Technical Opportunity / Challenge
Database poses some unique, interesting challenges for this
opportunity, none of which are directly addressed by off-the-shelf
commercial / open source databases. Main challenge is support for
dynamic, highly frequent database schema extensions without sacrificing
query performance.
Job Description
Seeking a database expert to conceptualize, define and develop
multi-tiered database architecture (physical, logical, data access
layer...etc) that will support the dynamic nature of data.
You must...
- Deep knowledge of databases and database theory
- Know relational databases inside-out (Oracle, mysql, postgreSQL)
- Familiar with graph theory (as it applies to data trees)
- Be comfortable with academic literature and be able to implement
concepts therein
- Experience implementing database engines
- Experience architecting & implementing high-performance,
high-availability databases for high demand applications
- Experience with LINUX, Object oriented design concepts, c/c++
- Experience in dynamic language such as Python
- PhD in CS preferred
