The Role
Hands-on Database Engineering Manager responsible for MySQL production ownership and administration of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra clusters. Drive backup/DR, replication, high availability, performance tuning, automation, AI-driven operations, AWS database integrations, monitoring, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure scalable, secure, highly available database platforms.
Summary Generated by Built In
Position: Engineering Manager - Database
Job Location: Noida
Role Overview
We are seeking a Database Engineering Manager (Individual Contributor) with deep expertise in MySQL and strong working knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra. This role combines hands-on database administration and optimization with strategic ownership of database reliability, automation, and cloud adoption. The candidate will lead by example—driving technical excellence, influencing best practices, and partnering cross-functionally with DevOps, SRE, and product engineering teams to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable database platforms.
Key Responsibilities
1. End-to-End Ownership of MySQL databases in production & staging—availability, performance, and reliability.
2. Architect, manage, and support MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra clusters for scale and resilience.
3. Define and enforce backup, recovery, HA, and DR strategies across all critical database platforms.
4. Drive database performance engineering—tuning queries, optimizing schemas, indexing, and partitioning for high-volume workloads.
5. Own replication, clustering, and failover architectures ensuring business continuity.
6. Champion automation & AI-driven operations—design self-healing scripts, predictive scaling, and proactive monitoring solutions. Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps teams on AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, EC2, S3) to optimize cost, security, and performance.
7. Establish monitoring dashboards & alerting mechanisms for slow queries, replication lag, deadlocks, and capacity planning. Ensure compliance & security standards—encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.
8. Lead incident management & on-call rotations, ensuring rapid response and minimal MTTR.
9. Act as a strategic technical partner, contributing to database roadmaps, automation strategy, and adoption of AI-driven DBA practices.
Required Skills & Experience
1. 6–10 years of proven DBA experience with primary expertise in MySQL (InnoDB, replication, clustering).
2. Strong working experience in MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra administration.
3. Demonstrated expertise in database performance tuning, schema design, and query optimization.
4. Deep exposure to AWS cloud database stack (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Backup/Restore frameworks).
5. Solid skills in Linux administration, shell scripting, and automation frameworks.
6. Familiarity with AI/ML tools for database monitoring and operational efficiency.
7. Proven ability to manage large-scale, high-availability OLTP/OLAP workloads.
8. Strong understanding of database security, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
9. Excellent problem-solving, cross-team collaboration, and communication skills.
10. Leadership mindset with the ability to mentor peers, define standards, and influence technical strategy while staying hands-on
Skills Required
- 6-10 years of DBA experience with primary expertise in MySQL (InnoDB, replication, clustering)
- Strong working experience administering MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra
- Expertise in database performance tuning, schema design, and query optimization
- Deep exposure to AWS database stack (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, EC2, S3)
- Solid Linux administration skills
- Proficiency in shell scripting and automation frameworks
- Familiarity with AI/ML tools for database monitoring and operational efficiency
- Proven ability to manage large-scale, high-availability OLTP/OLAP workloads
- Strong understanding of database security, encryption, and compliance frameworks
- Leadership mindset with ability to mentor, define standards, influence strategy while remaining hands-on
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The Company
What We Do
Paytm started the Digital Revolution in India. And we went on to become India’s leading Payments App. Today, more than 20 Million merchants & businesses are powered by Paytm to Accept Payments digitally. This is because more than 300 million Indians use Paytm to Pay at their stores. And that’s not all, Paytm App is used to Pay bills, do Recharges, Send money to friends & family, Book movies & travel tickets. With innovations to Financial services & products in pipeline, this is but one of the milestones achieved towards our mission – to bring 500 million unserved and underserved Indians to the mainstream economy.
