Software Engineer II, Backend

San Diego, CA

Primary Responsibilities:

• You will provide strong technical abilities in cloud-based software development and highly scalable API designs
• Design, implement and maintain RESTful Web Services API and algorithms
• Produce excellent, detailed design and development documentation
• Work with team members to deliver features on time, respond to evolving requirements, and strategic shifts in direction
• Familiar and comfortable with Agile/Scrum software development methodology

 Qualifications:

•  2-5 years of proven programming experience in Java (or equivalent enterprise back-end) developing server-side applications, object-oriented design and design patterns, and passionate about writing high-quality and well-architected code
• Experience in building high-performance and cloud-based scalable web services
• Experience implementing services backed by SQL and NoSQL data stores
• Strong understanding of engineering standard methodologies – requirement gathering and analysis, design and develop secure and scalable code with unit tests, participate in code reviews and documentation, experience with multiple technology stacks
• Ability to balance periodic on-call duty, and defensive engineering to minimize impact
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and cloud architecture
• Knowledge of DevOps practices, containerization, Docker/Kubernetes

The Accounts team is a seasoned team at SIE which interacts with various critical systems server side, client side and commerce related teams. Using state of the art technology, leveraging AWS services, we create high transaction, low latency systems that live at the heart of every module in platform engineering.

This is a fast paced, high-visibility engineering position within SIE’s platform engineering organization helping to establish a linear scale, highly available, fault-tolerant, globally distributed accounts services platform.

 This next generation Accounts platform will support the fast growing SIE customer base on both world class PlayStation consoles, ,devices and PC platforms. This key role will lead the technology transformation of the accounts services platform including existing and new services to support the dramatic customer growth on the platform.

 As a Senior Software Development Engineer in the team, you will design and develop highly scalable, distributed services, as well as collaborate with product managers, architects , engineers, and operations team members across playstation.  This is a fast-paced environment that leverages lightweight SOA design patterns. We encourage innovation and expect developers to take a high level of ownership throughout the software life cycle.

If you are a strong developer with experience and interest in distributed systems, databases, performance and scalability, we'd like to talk to you.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience in developing business critical software using Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, REST, JSON/XML, expert level of object oriented programming analysis and design

• 2+ years’ experience developing with AWS native services such as EC2, EKS, S3, Kinesis, Glue, Lambda, SQS, SNS and DynamoDB

• Experience developing applications on Java Services on Linux platforms

• Experience with servlet containers (e.g., Tomcat, Reactor Netty), JAXRS, Spring, and related technologies

• Experience developing web services using JSON and XML

• Prior experience working with Python is a plus

• Proficient in software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

• Demonstrated ability to take a project from initial scope out of requirements to launch

• Possess deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as object oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with micro service architecture.

• Experience creating UML artifacts (e.g., class, sequence, and component diagrams)

• Experience with AI driven development tools for code review and pipeline management

• Experience in requirements engineering, describing software product features, and technical designs.

• Experience with large scale account management systems with high throughput requirements

• Experience in deploying, operating, and managing services in AWS or other cloud environments.

• Asynchronous programming, Non-blocking I/O, Event-driven and backpressure handling

• Experience building high performance, active-active, linearly scalable production services (Enterprise Java/J2EE, or C++, Web Services, REST, SQL/NoSQL data layers)

About SHEIN 

SHEIN is a global online fashion and lifestyle retailer, offering SHEIN branded apparel and products from a global network of vendors, all at affordable prices. Headquartered in Singapore, with more than 15,000 employees operating from offices around the world, SHEIN is committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all, promoting its industry-leading, on-demand production methodology, for a smarter, future-ready industry. 

Position Summary 

We’re seeking a full-time Database Engineer (official title is Database Engineer III) with experience working in large-scale mission-critical environments with zero downtime for our San Diego-based corporate office.

The SHEIN DBRE team is a mix of DBA/SRE/DBRE oriented folks whose overarching goal is to provide highly available data services at scale. They strive to build an extremely reliable, performant, and secure database infrastructure through the skillful use of automation. This team is responsible for providing new architectures and scalability solutions to ever-growing business and data processing needs.

Our ideal candidate has a strong understanding of database fundamentals and how the properties of different database systems interact with applications and operating systems. You will be working onsite on a distributed team, with access to multiple customer environments. 

 Job Responsibilities 

• Maintaining scalable, reliable, and robust production database environments.
• Monitoring for problems and diagnosing and addressing those problems as needed.
• Performance tuning, query optimization, and index tuning.
• Building database tools and scripts to simplify, automate, to reduce operation toil.
• Responsible for working with development teams and engineers to provide a database design guidance.
• Handle Database upgrades and migrations, while monitoring and improving database performance.
• Triage and solve database issues, drive incidents until resolution and employ measures to prevent recurrence.
• Do capacity planning benchmarking on various databases.
• Provide assessments of data integrity, high availability, data security, and privacy.
• Provide 24x7 escalated on-call support on a pager rotation.

 Job Requirements 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline.
• MySQL specific database experience.
• Experience using Azure or any other cloud provider.
• A solid understanding of distributed/replicated database topologies.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, combined with a sense of ownership and drive.
• Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance and scalability.
• Good understanding of Linux system, ability to deploy open-source software independently.
• Proficient in more than one scripting language (golang/python/shell, etc.).
• A strong desire to be challenged by problems of scale and complexity to make our service better for our customers. 
• The ability to remain calm in the face of extreme crises.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work effectively with geographically remote teams.
• AI Competency Requirements (Junior MySQL Operations Engineer) Familiar with mainstream AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini) and able to leverage them for day-to-day operations tasks such as SQL optimization suggestions, troubleshooting, and documentation generation.
• Capable of writing effective prompts and iteratively refining them based on model outputs; aware of AI model limitations and maintains a habit of manually validating results.
• Has hands-on experience using AI tools to address real MySQL operations scenarios, such as slow query analysis, parameter tuning recommendations, and incident diagnosis assistance.
• Understands the fundamentals of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and is able to structure database operations knowledge into AI-consumable formats, such as knowledge bases, tuning case libraries, and FAQ documents.
• Has exposure to AI application frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex, or has basic experience with vector databases (e.g., Qdrant, pgvector).
• Understands the basics of MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration and is familiar with how AI Agents interact with external tools.
• Maintains a habit of organizing day-to-day operations experience into structured documents or prompt templates for team-wide sharing and reuse.

Nice to Have

• Bilingual fluency in Mandarin and English.
• Experience managing MySQL / Percona Server 8 at scale.
• Experience managing distributed database, like Clickhouse, Hbase, MongoDB and Starrocks etc. Experience with Percona tools, Orchestrator, Ghost etc.

Benefits and Perks 

• Bonus eligible
• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs) 
• Health Savings Account with Employer Funding 
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent care) 
• Company-Paid Basic Life/AD&D insurance 
• Company-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability 
• Voluntary Benefit Offerings (Voluntary Life/AD&D, Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, and Accident) 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Business Travel Accident Insurance 
• 401(k) Savings Plan with discretionary company match and access to a financial advisor  
• Vacation, paid holidays, floating holiday and sick days   
• Employee discounts 
• Free weekly catered lunch 
• Dog-friendly office (available at select locations) 
• Free gym access (available at select locations) 
• Free swag giveaways 
• Annual Holiday Party 
• Invitations to pop-ups and other company events 
• Complimentary daily office snacks and beverages

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THE ROLE:

Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), a leader in the data storage and flash technology space, is seeking a talented and motivated Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team. 

As a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, you will play a crucial role in understanding our customers' unique challenges and tailoring Everpure solutions to meet their specific needs. Collaborating closely with the sales team, you will act as a technical expert during the sales process, helping to showcase the value of our products and services.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making
• Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Everpure portfolio and others from the ecosystem, to measurable customer business outcomes
• Partner closely with account managers, specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business
• Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces
• Take control of evaluations,  benchmarks and system configurations
• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts
• Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
• Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
• Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
• Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials (i.e. whitepaper, web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectives
• Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest, differentiated solution positioning
• Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization
• Lead by example living the Everpure Values:  Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first  

WHAT YOU BRING:

• Pre-sales experience is required
• 5 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required. Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts preferred
• Deep understanding of the architecture, design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
• Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
• Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
• Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
• Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
• Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
• Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, k8s and microservices architectures a plus
• Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
• Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills

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