Careers
As a leading company in a knowledge industry, we're always looking for highly-qualified database and systems administrators and experts with the skills to join our team.
We pride ourselves on providing excellent customer service and exceeding client expectations. If you believe you have the expertise, knowledge and skills to extend premium customer service and to work with the leaders in database services, Pythian may be the right fit for you.
To Apply
Complete our resume submission form and attach a Word document or PDF copy of your resume.
Typical Openings
- Senior Oracle Applications DBA
- Senior MySQL DBA
- Senior SQL Server DBA
- Multiplatform-oriented DBAs are of special interest to us; if you know more than one database platform very well, please apply.
- Senior Unix systems administrators (Pythian supports all of the enterprise IT stack focusing on the database tier, including ERP apps, app servers and enterprise servers all the way down to the systems tier).
Our company is a "remote services" company in that we typically concentrate our service delivery operations in our offices in the following cities:
If you are willing to relocate to one of those offices, please send in your resume. If you are not, but you live in a location that you feel is strategic for Pythian, we are willing to evaluate the business case of opening a new office where you are.
Openings are contingent on client needs and specific requirements. Please note that all resumes are reviewed. Applicants will be contacted with a status on current openings. If we don't have an immediate match, we will keep it on file for future consideration.
Benefits of Working at Pythian
If you are the right candidate, you will find it exhilarating to work with an elite team of DBAs for an elite group of customers: you can learn more here in a year than in any in-house DBA job, no matter how long you stay.
You'll appreciate the technical challenge and joy of working with and gaining valuable experience on every mainstream platform that runs an enterprise database, including AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64, Windows, etc.
Platform experience aside, we support just about every enterprise database technology and feature, including RAC, advanced queuing, advanced replication, every flavor of Data Guard, RMAN, Streams, SQL Server clustering, database scaleout and sharding with MySQL, etc. We support customers across multiple industries including healthcare, manufacturing, media, dot-com, education, retail, services and many more. This leads to wonderful business subject matter variety and interest.
As a company, we value hard work, not long work; this is reflected in all of our work-related processes including our resourcing model. Specifically, our resourcing model allows us to reliably deliver work weeks that enable excellent work and personal life balance.
Finally, this is a company that will allow you to research and write articles, presentations and blog posts on company time, and pay for you to present your research at user conferences worldwide where it gets accepted.