Senior Software Engineer - MySQL Data Infrastructure

Bloomberg • Montgomery, NJ

90d • $160,000 - $240,000

About The Position

Our financial products rely on petabytes of real-time and historical data. DataHub is Bloomberg's distributed data platform powering that scale—managing billions of row mutations daily across thousands of MySQL/MyRocks shards. We operate at the intersection of high availability, low latency, and massive scale. Your mission: keep this engine fast, safe, and observable as we double in size.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software development and/or SRE experience
• Deep knowledge of MySQL internals, including InnoDB and MyRocks, replication, and backups
• Strong programming skills in Go and/or Python
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

• Contributions to open source projects like MySQL, RocksDB, MyRocks, or Vitess
• Production experience with Kubernetes (Helm, Operators, CRDs)
• Familiarity with Kafka, Spark, or lakehouse architectures
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, OpenTofu)
• A passion for reliability, scale, and mentoring others

Responsibilities

• Design, automate, and operate multi-region Vitess-backed MySQL/MyRocks clusters in Kubernetes
• Build internal tools in Go or Python for failover, schema changes, and performance testing
• Harden our CI/CD pipelines and custom K8s operators for infrastructure components
• Partner with engineers across Bloomberg to scale and standardize data operations
• Share your expertise on distributed systems, SLOs, and production debugging

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Short and long term disability benefits
• 401(k) + match
• Life insurance
• Various wellness programs
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Broadcasting and Content Providers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree