Senior Database Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Sr Database Engineer to own the day-to-day operation of our database estate. You will be the owner of everything that keeps that estate healthy and moving: pre-deployment migrations, upgrades, query performance, customer data requests, backup and recovery, and incident response. This is an operations-first role.

What you'll do

• Own day-to-day operations across MongoDB, Amazon DocumentDB, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift, including health checks, capacity, connections, and storage growth
• Plan and execute database version upgrades, assessing driver compatibility, deprecated features
• Find and fix slow queries by profiling workloads and reading explain plans, then design, add, or retire indexes based on real query patterns
• Run pre-deployment schema and data migrations for each release, with pre-checks, verification of the result, and a tested rollback
• Manage versioned database migrations in Git (Liquibase, Flyway, or equivalent), reviewed through pull requests and applied through CI with GitHub Actions

What you need

• 5–9 yrs of experience
• Git
• Python
• SQL
• MongoDB
• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Redshift
• DynamoDB
• Bash