RCSB Protein Data Bank is seeking a highly motivated software developer with experience in database administration and domain experience in computer science or relevant certification. This position will involve collaboration with wwPDB scientists and software developers in a collaborative team environment. The candidate should be comfortable working in a dynamic environment, and able to demonstrate an ability to think creatively, generate new ideas, and implement solutions. The candidate should be interested in structural biological data and enjoy engaging with other programmers and scientists in a collaborative team environment.

● Bachelor or higher degree in Computer Science or relevant certification

● DB administration skills in MySQL, MongoDB, and MariaDB

● Knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, and integrity

● Experience with software development in Python programming and shell scripting

● Experience with creating and updating DB schemas with complex relationships

● Experience with DB data manipulations (loading, performance measurement, backup)

Additional skills are a plus:
 

● Experience working with large and complex scientific datasets and data models

● Experience working with a DBMS in both on-cloud and on-premise environments

● Experience in C++ programming

● Problem solving skills and ability to think algorithmically
● Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

Workstation/laptop

Onsite in academic and collaborative working environment

Responsibilities:
 

• Perform weekly update processes for updating PDB archives
• Monitor update performance and implement changes for improvements
• Extend and maintain data exchange with wwPDB partners
• Improve and maintain weekly update related software/scripts
• Extend and maintain new content types in the PDB archives
• Build and support database systems of high availability and quality
• Design new relational database schema, integrate complex bioinformatics data, and improve existing schemas through normalization
• Improve existing backup processes for both relational and non-relational DBMS
• Provide users with data in appropriate formats and in a timely manner for data analysis and statistical reports
• Indexing and query performance tuning
• Monitor database performance, implement changes, apply new patches and update versions when required
• Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques for database backups

RCSB PDB is located at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey and provides a friendly and collaborative working environment with excellent professional development opportunities. At Rutgers, this academic position offers New Jersey state benefits. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. 
 

For more details about state and university benefits,see our employee benefits page.

About RCSB PDB
 

The work at RCSB PDB (rcsb.org) focuses on data processing, validation, integration, and transformation, and the presentation and visualization of data using complex interactive graphical user interfaces. An important aspect is to provide users with high quality data and the ability to download, search, and explore the PDB data archive. Solutions are implemented using a wide range of components developed and maintained in-house, in addition to third-party tools, libraries, frameworks and technologies.
 

See Why Join Us at https://www.rcsb.org/pages/jobs#whyJoinUs 

Applicants should provide a cover letter relating their research and career interests to this position, a full curriculum vitae, and names and contact information for three references. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Start date flexible.