Data Warehouse Engineer for Second Life

Join Linden Lab's team and become an active contributor to what many in the technology and business worlds are referring to as the future of the Internet.  Second Life is the largest user-generated 3D virtual world on the Web, boasting an international population and thriving economy.  With over a million dollars a day being spent in the virtual economy and users from almost every country in the world, Second Life is a big idea with big dreams and big challenges for you to help us solve. Many of the world's top brands, news organizations and educators have a presence in-world.


Overview:
We are looking for a brilliant data warehousing professional to build and maintain the critical warehouse infrastructure that support our team in making smart business decisions. This software engineering role at Linden Lab contributes to the organization's success through expertise in data warehouse design and ETL (Extraction, Transformation & Loading of data). Qualified individuals will have a solid background in the fundamentals of Data Warehousing as well as mastery of SQL and relational database design.


Responsibilities:
-Warehouse Design - Work with the Operations team and the reporting business analyst to implement a solid, extensible warehouse design that supports the new analytics requirements.
-Warehouse ETL - Build and maintain code to populate the data warehouse with data loaded from production databases. Perform all necessary data transformations to populate data into a warehouse table structure that is optimized for reporting.
-On-going Warehouse Maintenance - Quickly assess the impact of production system changes to existing analytics and implement changes to the warehouse ETL and reporting code to ensure consistent and accurate reporting.


Qualifications:
-3+ years experience working extensively with SQL. (Mastery of SQL and relational concepts).
-Experience with the design and implementation of scripts that populate large relational data warehouse environments (with tables that contain millions of rows).
-Solid understanding of rational index design and SQL statement optimization techniques.
-Ability to work in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment on really interesting problems - Must be able to use sound judgment to develop effective solutions from loosely stated requirements.
-Intense attention to detail - Should be able to effectively QA own work product to make sure that warehouse data is complete and accurate.
-Exceptional problem solving and communication skills.
-Authorized to work in the US.
-Proficiency with Perl a plus.
-Entrepreneurial or start-up experience.


Fine Print: Linden Lab seeks to maintain a diverse and welcoming workplace; therefore candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

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