Senior Database Engineer

Senior Database Engineer

Requirements

• Hands-on experience on NoSQL/SQL databases, with significant time as a

  DBA on MongoDB

  .
• Experienced in

  hosting, maintaining, and owning large MongoDB clusters on the cloud

  .
• Experience in

  scripting language and tools like Ansible and Terraform

  .
• Great in

  debugging skills

  ; should be able to look at related metrics, narrow down possible causes of the problem, dive deep/reproduce those issues, and communicate with the application team to bring them to closure.

• Bonus

  if experienced in managing

  ScyllaDB clusters

  or

  AWS ElastiCache

  .

• Bonus

  if experience in one or more of the

  Time Series Databases

  like InfluxDB, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics.

Roles and Responsibilities

Engineering Excellence

• Constantly thrive to explore

  optimizations in database configurations, infrastructure, cost, new features, and performance improvements

  .
• Identify parts of the system that do not scale/are non-reliable, provide immediate measures, and drive

  long-term resolution

  of such cases.

• Owning the reliability and availability of MongoDB and ScyllaDB infra in the cloud

  Servers (EC2 Instances), storage etc.
• Influence developers to adopt the right standards and practices which lead to

  ease of operations, higher reliability, and cost efficiency

  .
• Build

  Self-healing capabilities

  for the databases.

Operational Excellence

• Enhancing the scalability and performance of existing database architecture

  adding and removing shards regularly.
• Performing

  database maintenance, migration, and upgrading hardware and software

  .
• Monitor the

  overall health parameters of the clusters

  like CPU Utilisation, Memory utilization, Operation Execution times, Replication lag, and load balancing of data and queries, and identify the stress areas.
• Conducting

  diagnostic tests, evaluating performance metrics, and ensuring high availability or uptime of database services

  .

• Documenting processes

  and complying with best practices in database management.