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Database Administrator

Weekday AI·Chennai

Pay not stated3–6 yrsFull-time

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About the role

We are looking for a strong Database Engineer with deep expertise in PostgreSQL, distributed systems, database internals, and production database operations. The role focuses on designing, scaling, automating, and optimizing database infrastructure for high-throughput, cloud-native environments.

What you'll do

  • Design, operate, optimize, and scale production database systems across SQL and NoSQL environments
  • Debug and prevent complex concurrency issues , including deadlocks, lock contention, starvation, and long-running transactions
  • Advise application teams on safe database access patterns, including idempotency, retries, backoff strategies, and concurrency controls
  • Develop a deep understanding of database storage and replication internals, including B-trees, LSM structures, page layouts, WAL/redo/undo, checkpoints, compaction
  • Design and implement database backup, restore, upgrade, migration, and disaster recovery strategies

What you need

  • 3–6 yrs of experience
  • SQL
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • NoSQL
  • Incident response
  • Any graduate

Good to have

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Root cause analysis
  • Data modelling
  • Linux

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