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Senior Database Administrator

Impact.comCape Town, South AfricaOnsite

Our Company:


At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded.

If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you!impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go.

To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

Your Role at Impact:


As a Senior Database Administrator at Impact, you will work with the latest technologies that enable near-real time processing of datasets in the Terabytes range and the exciting challenges that come with working with massive amounts of data. You will have the freedom to experiment with the latest technologies with the ultimate goal of scaling our systems linearly.If you have great ideas and like to think outside the box, we will encourage it and support you, giving you the tools to be successful as we scale Impact.

At Impact, your career path is yours to shape, as we encourage cross training into other technologies 

What You'll Do:


  • Administer and support multiple MySQL database instances in a shared environment
  • Manage database capacity and usage. Pro-active capacity planning.
  • Monitor and optimize database performance
  • Develop backup and recovery procedures
  • Essential Database administration - install, configure, upgrade, backup, partitioning and monitoring of databases
  • Work with developers during application development life cycle in the design and planning of schema, tables, data types, indexes, procedures and functions
  • Proactively identify performance bottlenecks and database risks

What You Have:


  • Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science or a related field
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Production Database Administrator
  • Experience with MySQL / Percona Server 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 8.0 / TokuDB 5.7
  • Experience with ProxySQL 2.x / Orchestrator, Percona XtraBackup
  • 3+ years of experience in writing Linux shell scripts, perl scripts, Python etc.
  • Experience with High Availability MySQL/Percona environments
  • Experience working with Large Data Volumes - 100’s of Terabytes to Petabytes
  • Strong understanding of InnoDB and InnoDB tuning.
  • Experience working with SingleStore, MongoDB, ScyllaDB, Clickhouse, Percona XtraDB Cluster, CloudSpanner, CloudSQL, AWS RDS/Aurora
  • Experience with Puppet, Terraform

Nice to have:


  • Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits/Perks:


  • Unlimited PTO policy
  • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
  • Training & Development
  • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
  • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
  • Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund
  • Stock Options
  • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
  • Internet Allowance
  • Flexible work hours
  • Casual work environment

Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.


All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.#LI-CT1

Life at Impact.com

Impact is the global leader in Partnership Automation and catalyst for the new Partnership Economy. Impact accelerates enterprise growth by scaling discovery, recruitment, onboarding, engagement and optimization of all types of partnerships. Impact’s Partnership Cloud™ provides automation for the full partnership lifecycle; confident decision making and optimization through measurement and attribution; and protection from fraud. Impact drives revenue growth for global enterprises such as Cabela’s, Fanatics, Getty Images, Lenovo, Levi’s, Techstyle and Ticketmaster. Founded in Santa Barbara, CA in 2008, Impact has grown to over 400 employees and ten offices across the United States, Europe and Asia. To learn more visit www.impact.com, and register now for www.impactgrowth.com.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Entrepreneurial spirit and culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded2. Passionate about people, technology, and customer success3. Valuing opinions and contributions from employees4. Fun and talented team members from all over the world5. Positive work-life balance with unlimited responsible PTO policy6. Continued access to industry certifications and training & development opportunities7. Celebrating successes through inclusive events and employee-led activities8. High-velocity, cool company culture where each person can make a difference9. Employee wellness care with mental health support and fitness reimbursements10. Flexible work hours and casual environment
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