Senior Database Administrator

Razorpay was founded by Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur in 2014. Razorpay is building a new-age digital banking hub (Neobank) for businesses in India with the mission is to enable frictionless banking and payments experiences for businesses of all shapes and sizes. What started as a B2B payments company is processing billions of dollars of payments for lakhs of businesses across India. 

Responsibilities

• Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our database infrastructure.
• Work closely with application teams to ship solutions that integrate seamlessly with our database systems.
• Analyze solutions and implement best practices for supported datastores(Primarily MySQL , PostgreSQL).
• Develop and enforce best practices for database security, backup, and recovery.
• Work on the observability of relevant database metrics and make sure we reach our database objectives.
• Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations).
• Work with peers(DevOps, Application Engineers) to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents.
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools.
• OnCall support on rotation with the team.
• Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
• Perform regular system monitoring, troubleshooting, and capacity planning to ensure scalability.
• Create and maintain documentation on database configurations, processes, and procedures.

Requirements

• Have at least 4-8 years of experience running MySQL/PostgreSQL databases in large Environments.
• Awareness of cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
• Have knowledge of the internals of MySQL/PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of load balancing solutions such as ProxySQL to distribute database traffic efficiently across multiple servers.
• Knowledge of tools and methods for monitoring database performance.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within cross-functional teams.

The Nice-to-Haves

• Knowledge of caching (Redis / Elasticache)
• Knowledge on scripting languages (Python)
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation (Terraform/Ansible)
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.