Sr. Database Administrator at Yammer (San Francisco)

Yammer (www.yammer.com)is the leader in Enterprise Social Networking, providing a secure way foremployees inside a company to communicate, collaborate, and share information.The basic version of Yammer is free, and companies can pay to upgrade theirnetwork to receive additional administrative and security controls, prioritycustomer service, and a dedicated customer success manager. More than 100,000companies and organizations are using our award-winning Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) solution to improve employee productivity and engagement.

Yammer began when the CEO, David Sacks,presented the idea at TechCrunch 50 in 2008 taking home the grand prize. Sincethen, we have 3 Million users with over 80% of the Fortune 500 companies using our product.

In this role, you would be working with both the Operations and the Analytics Teams taking ownership of our PostgreSQL and Vertica databases.

Required Skills

* Experience with design and support of large, high volume production databases
* Strong understanding of PostgreSQL, including experience with or goodunderstanding of clustering and database replication scenarios.
* In depth knowledge of database design, including logical and physical design,as well as SQL
* Analytical skills

* comfort with tools/processes involved in data-drivendecision-making
* Comfort working in fast-paced environment

Preferred Skills:
* BS or MS (preferred) in Computer Science or equivalent.

* Experience with Vertica preferred

* Experience with NOSQL solutions such as MongoDB or similar technologies
* Experience with design and support of a Data Warehouse If interested, feel free to send me an email directly at kcaldwell@yammer-inc.com


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Kristen Caldwell