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Role: Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer (SDE3) Function: Data Infrastructure / Platform Engineering Location: Bengaluru Type: Full-time Industry: Information Technology & Services, Computer Software, Fintech About Company An enterprise tech startup founded in 2016 and based in Bengaluru. The company builds India's paperless digital infrastructure covering digital identity verification, legal e-signing, document automation, eNACH payment automation, and e-KYC. It serves 1,500+ enterprises and 100 million individual users. The company runs lean at ~90 people, with ~40 engineers, and operates at the intersection of financial inclusion and regulatory-grade reliability. Its culture rewards ownership, first-principles thinking, and craftsmanship over process. Position Overview This is a founding seat on the company's Platform Pod a greenfield infrastructure team with a P0 mandate. As the Data Infrastructure SME, you will own the entire database estate: performance, replication, backup/DR, capacity, and cost across high-throughput transactional systems underpinning payments, identity, e-sign, and compliance products. You will also define the data-layer standards and self-serve tooling that product teams across a ~40-engineer organisation depend on. Build the database platform behind high-scale, mission-critical systems. Were looking for a Data Infrastructure SME who can own databases beyond day-to-day operations from performance and reliability to migrations, automation and platformization. Youll work with MySQL, PostgreSQL, TiDB-class distributed systems and help build the foundation for a future self-serve database platform / DBaaS. What Youll Own Own production database infrastructure across performance, replication, backup/DR, upgrades, capacity and cost.Drive schema, query and migration best practices across engineering teams.Work deeply with MySQL/PostgreSQL internals and distributed SQL/NoSQL systems at scale.Design and automate database provisioning, lifecycle management, recovery and upgrades.Lead large-scale production migrations with minimal downtime and zero data loss.Build database capabilities for customer-controlled/on-prem environments, where hands-on access may be limited.Partner with engineering teams to build self-service tooling, guardrails and future DBaaS capabilities.What Were Looking For 5+ years of deep hands-on production database ownership.Internals-level expertise in PostgreSQL or MySQL.Experience with distributed SQL/NoSQL databases at scale.Proven experience with database automation, self-service tooling or DBaaS/platform engineering.Track record of successfully executing critical production database migrations.Strong understanding of HA, replication, DR, performance tuning and capacity planning.Bonus Points Experience with TiDB / CockroachDB / YugabyteDB, Kubernetes/Terraform, or banking, payments, fintech and other transaction-critical systems. If youve built and operated databases at scale and want to turn that expertise into a platform wed love to hear from you. What We Offer Founding seat on the Platform Pod greenfield mandate with P0 priority and direct influence over infrastructure decisions across a ~40-engineer organisationOwnership of a domain that touches every product payments, identity, e-sign, and compliance with real SLA accountabilityLean, high-trust environment: ~90-person company where platform decisions ship fast and your work is visible to leadership .
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
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