Database Administrator III (DBA)

7 - 12 years

9 - 14 Lacs

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About Us

Liquidnitro Games is India s flagship live services and game production company, founded by industry veterans with a proven track record in producing massively successful games and live operations. We partner with studios and publishers globally to deliver world-class technology, engineering, and creative services that drive growth and engagement in their games.

Role Overview

As a Senior Database Engineer (SE3) at Liquidnitro Games, you will own the architecture, reliability, and performance of our cloud database platforms powering real-time gameplay and live services. You ll drive the evolution of data infrastructure strategies across NoSQL, SQL, and caching layers with a focus on scalability, security, and cost optimization. You ll mentor junior engineers, define standards, and play a key role in production readiness for global-scale systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architecture & Design: Lead database design and scaling strategies across MongoDB, Redis, and relational databases for massive concurrent user traffic.
  • Capacity Planning: Forecast growth and proactively scale clusters to ensure SLAs across high-load regions.
  • Data Reliability: Establish disaster recovery (DR), cross-region replication, point-in-time restore strategies, and failure simulations.
  • Data Governance: Set and enforce standards for data access, encryption, schema evolution, and lifecycle management across teams.
  • Tooling & Automation: Build internal tools for diagnostics, cost observability, access requests, and automated incident detection.
  • Mentorship: Guide SE1 and SE2 engineers on best practices, data architecture, and operational excellence.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with Game, Platform, and Analytics teams to align DB schemas with gameplay and telemetry needs.

Skills & Experience

  • 7+ years of experience managing and scaling MongoDB, Redis, and SQL clusters in distributed, cloud-native systems.
  • Proven experience with high-availability architectures, geo-distributed data, schema migrations, and sharding.
  • Expertise in AWS/GCP native data services and performance monitoring.
  • Solid knowledge of database internals, query planning, and storage engines (e.g., WiredTiger, InnoDB).
  • Fluent in scripting and automation (Python, Terraform, Ansible).
  • Strong understanding of data security, auditing, and compliance frameworks.

Bonus

  • Hands-on experience with event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis) and data lakes.
  • Background in gaming, adtech, or other high-throughput verticals.

Job Category:

Engineering

Job Type:

Full Time

Job Location:

Hyderabad

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