Job Description
What you will be doing:
• Analyze solutions and implement best practices for PostgreSQL, MySQL and DynamoDB infrastructure.
• Provide NoSQL/SQL development guidance to engineering and technical support teams.
• Design, build and maintain core database infrastructure that allow Greenlight to scale.
• Actively monitor databases for performance issues, and take steps to identify, document, and resolve them.
• Pair with SRE team to roll out production changes and mitigate database-related production incidents.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integration and synchronization across various systems.
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering teams succeed by building self-service tooling.
• Develop and maintain documentation including database schemas, configuration settings and standard operating procedures.
• Facilitate and improve observability across database infrastructure and take proactive measures to prevent and resolve issues.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting to ensure adequate resources are available for current and future database needs.
• Provide on-call support and facilitate database remediations resulting from incidents
• Stay up to date with industry best practices, trends and emerging technologies related to database administration.
What you should bring:
• 5+ years of previous experience working as a DBA.
• Experience managing mission critical highly transactional and distributed databases (MySQL preferred) in the cloud
• Comfortable with rotational on-call support
• Proficient in SQL development
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication and connectivity issues, etc
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work collaboratively within Infrastructure and across Engineering.
• Experience in performance tuning, query optimization, and performance monitoring
• Experience administering AWS RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB and/or Redis (AWS Elasticache)
• Experience working with Terraform is a plus.
Working at Greenlight
Medical, dental, vision, and FSAs
Unlimited, flexible time off
Generous employer 401(k) match and equity
16-week paid parental leave
Ongoing learning and development
Remote-friendly work environment
• Analyze solutions and implement best practices for PostgreSQL, MySQL and DynamoDB infrastructure.
• Provide NoSQL/SQL development guidance to engineering and technical support teams.
• Design, build and maintain core database infrastructure that allow Greenlight to scale.
• Actively monitor databases for performance issues, and take steps to identify, document, and resolve them.
• Pair with SRE team to roll out production changes and mitigate database-related production incidents.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integration and synchronization across various systems.
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering teams succeed by building self-service tooling.
• Develop and maintain documentation including database schemas, configuration settings and standard operating procedures.
• Facilitate and improve observability across database infrastructure and take proactive measures to prevent and resolve issues.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting to ensure adequate resources are available for current and future database needs.
• Provide on-call support and facilitate database remediations resulting from incidents
• Stay up to date with industry best practices, trends and emerging technologies related to database administration.
What you should bring:
• 5+ years of previous experience working as a DBA.
• Experience managing mission critical highly transactional and distributed databases (MySQL preferred) in the cloud
• Comfortable with rotational on-call support
• Proficient in SQL development
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication and connectivity issues, etc
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work collaboratively within Infrastructure and across Engineering.
• Experience in performance tuning, query optimization, and performance monitoring
• Experience administering AWS RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB and/or Redis (AWS Elasticache)
• Experience working with Terraform is a plus.
Working at Greenlight
Medical, dental, vision, and FSAs
Unlimited, flexible time off
Generous employer 401(k) match and equity
16-week paid parental leave
Ongoing learning and development
Remote-friendly work environment
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Senior Database Administrator position is now open for candidates interested in the Database Administrator sector. This role in Bengaluru offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Database Administrator is a plus.