Senior Database Administrator
KarnatakaFull-time5–8 yrsPosted 1 week ago
Senior software engineering role at SkanAI in Karnataka. Needs 5–8 years.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) with deep, hands-on expertise across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Databricks to own the health, performance, scalability, and reliability of our large-scale data environments. This is a highly technical role for someone who thrives on operating databases at very high data volumes and who takes pride in building systems that are fast, resilient, and cost-efficient.
What you'll do
- Monitoring, Metrics & Observability
- Establish meaningful metrics, dashboards, and alerting thresholds that surface issues early and drive proactive intervention rather than reactive firefighting
- Define and track service-level objectives (SLOs) and key operational indicators, and report on the health and performance of the data estate
- Implement and tune autoscaling, sharding, replication, and partitioning strategies to accommodate sustained growth in data volume and concurrency
- Participate in incident response and on-call rotations, conduct root-cause analysis, and drive durable fixes and preventative measures
What you need
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Python
- Databricks
- Root cause analysis
Good to have
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Ansible
- Spark