Senior Database Reliability Engineer

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

• 6–11 yrs of experience
• SQL
• Microservices
• TypeScript
• Git
• Python
• Elasticsearch
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• SOX
• IAM
• Prometheus
• Grafana

What you get

• ₹4.8 L–₹9 L a month