Senior Database Reliability Engineer
RemoteFull-time6–11 yrs4.8 L–₹9 L a monthPosted open since may 2026
Senior engineering role at Sezzle. Needs 6+ years and a B.Tech, B.E. or B.Sc. Remote; pays ₹4,75,000–9,02,500 a month.
About the role
We are seeking a technically strong, hands-on Senior Database Reliability Engineer to help design, build, and scale the database platform used across Sezzle’s applications . This is not a traditional DBA role . This role is for an engineer who can combine deep database knowledge with software engineering, infrastructure engineering, and platform thinking.
What you'll do
- Partner with backend engineering teams to improve database usage in application code, including connection lifecycle, transaction handling, retries, timeouts, pooling
- Build automation and internal tooling that makes database operations safer, more repeatable, and less dependent on manual intervention
- Define and enforce engineering standards for database access, schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, connection management, and operational readiness
- Architect and improve database infrastructure across AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS Proxy, read replicas, backups, failover, parameter groups, monitoring
- Review application designs and database changes early in the development lifecycle to ensure reliability, scalability, maintainability
What you need
- SQL
- Microservices
- TypeScript
- Git
- Python
- Elasticsearch
Good to have
- AWS
- PostgreSQL
- SOX
- IAM
- Prometheus
- Grafana