Senior Database Engineer

Job Description

• 7+ years of experience in MySql database that includes database design, development, optimization and maintenance.
• Capability to manage database versioning
• Extensive knowledge and experience in database documentation and ability to create documentation without pre-existing templates
• Partnering with peers in product development and other operational teams to enable business and deliver projects.
• Triage incidents and identify root causes
• Expertise in MySql Programing/review/tuning and suggest areas of improvements
• Extensive experience in working hand-in-hand with Product, Engineering and Production Support teams
• Writes code with testability, readability, edge cases, and errors in mind.
• Consistently writes production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors. Understands when it is appropriate to leave comments, but biases towards self-documenting code.
• Understands their team's domain at a high level and can gather sufficient context to work productively within it. Has expertise in a portion of their team's domain.
• Very good understanding of database security practices and capabilities to apply the same.
• Maintains the process for releasing a database (including reports, visual checks, batch processes, ) and is responsible for ensuring the preparation, coordination, implementation and control of the overall release of the database
• Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues and investigate anomalous behavior in the Database environment.
• Experience with Source Version Control software like GitHub and CICD pipelines
• Willingness and skills to own the database
• Knowledge and experience of working with AWS Cloud is good to have
• Experience with data pipelines is good to have
• Experience and knowledge of data warehouse technologies is an added advantage

Operational Requirements

• Working knowledge of JIRA/Confluence
• Working knowledge of Google Apps (Gmail, Docs, Spreadsheet, Calendar) and MS Office apps
• Comfortable using modern collaboration tools such as Slack, Google Meet, Zoom, MS Teams, Live Share etc.
• Willingness to work in US overlapping hours

Soft Skills

• Good verbal and written communication skills with capability to understand the requirements, explain the implementation/solution approach and document the approach (must have)
• Capability to perform in high pressure situations
• Capability to clearly articulate their thoughts in the video meetings
• Willingness to work late hours for collaboration with North America team
• Capability to analyse the problem, devise step by step solution and implement the solution
• Keenness to learn and expand knowledge
• Passion for keeping themselves up to date with the MySql and general database ecosystem
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Good team spirit and helping nature

Category

Backend Developers (Web, Mobile & Software Dev)

Expertise

SQL AWS MySQL - 5 Years Jira MS Office AWS Cloud Confluence Database development Data Warehouse GitHub Database Design