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About us Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytms mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. Role Overview We are seeking a Database STL (Individual Contributor) with deep expertise in MySQL and strong working knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra. This role combines handson database administration and optimization with strategic ownership of database reliability, automation, and cloud adoption. The candidate will lead by exampledriving technical excellence, influencing best practices, and partnering crossfunctionally with DevOps, SRE, and product engineering teams to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable database platforms. Key Responsibilities End-to-End Ownership of MySQL databases in production & stagingavailability, performance, and reliability. Architect, manage, and support MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra clusters for scale and resilience. Define and enforce backup, recovery, HA, and DR strategies across all critical database platforms. Drive database performance engineeringtuning queries, optimizing schemas, indexing, and partitioning for high-volume workloads. Own replication, clustering, and failover architectures ensuring business continuity. Champion automation & AI-driven operationsdesign 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. Establish monitoring dashboards & alerting mechanisms for slow queries, replication lag, deadlocks, and capacity planning. Ensure compliance & security standardsencryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements. Lead incident management & on-call rotations, ensuring rapid response and minimal MTTR. Act as a strategic technical partner, contributing to database roadmaps, automation strategy, and adoption of AI-driven DBA practices. Why join us Because you get an opportunity to make a difference, and have a great time doing that. You are challenged and encouraged here to do stuff that is meaningful for you and for those we serve. You should work with us if you think seriously about what technology can do for people. We are successful, and our successes are rooted in our people's collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer, and that's how it will always be. Learn more about the exciting work we do in Tech by reading our Engineering blogs. Compensation If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you. With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants and we are committed to it. Indias largest digital lending story is brewing here. Its your opportunity to be a part of the story! .
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
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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.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.