MySQL - Senior Lead Database Engineer
Paytm
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaPosted 3 months ago
Skill Required
TechnologyMySQLEngineeringPostgreSQLObservabilityCryptographyCassandraDynamoDBsecurityQuery OptimizationMongoDBdesignDevOpsCloudAWSAI
Key highlights
- Deep expertise in MySQL required
- Strong knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra required
- Opportunity to be part of India’s largest digital lending story
- Work with 500 mn+ registered users and 21 mn+ merchants
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 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.
Responsibilities
- End-to-End Ownership of MySQL databases in production & staging—availability, 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 engineering—tuning queries, optimizing schemas, indexing, and partitioning for high-volume workloads.
- Own replication, clustering, and failover architectures ensuring business continuity.
- 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.
- Establish monitoring dashboards & alerting mechanisms for slow queries, replication lag, deadlocks, and capacity planning.
- Ensure compliance & security standards—encryption, 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.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in MySQL
- Strong working knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra
Benefits
- Opportunity to make a difference, and have a great time doing that
- Challenged and encouraged to do stuff that is meaningful for you and for those we serve
- Work with us if you think seriously about what technology can do for people
- Successful, with successes rooted in people's collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer
- Opportunity to be a part of India’s largest digital lending story
- Access to Engineering blogs to learn more about the exciting work we do in Tech
Additional details
- 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.
- Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.
- 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.
- If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you.