▷ [Immediate Start] Database Administrator

Razorpay was founded by and 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 We are a full-stack financial services organisation committed to helping Indian businesses with comprehensive and innovative payment and business banking solutions built over robust technology to address the entire length and breadth of the payment and banking journey for any business Over the past year we ve disbursed loans worth millions of dollars in loans to thousands of businesses In parallel Razorpay is reimagining how businesses manage money by simplifying business banking via and enabling capital availability for businesses via The Role A Database Administrator at Razorpay is well-grounded - responsible for managing and maintaining databases Their primary role is to ensure the integrity security and performance of the databases that store and retrieve data critical to the organization s operations Engineering creates a significant impact across different areas considering the scale of product outreach You re also expected to influence the culture of the company and help shape it in the right way Roles and 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 data stores primarily MySQL and 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 learning turns 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 Mandatory Qualifications Have at least 2-4 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 Knowledge of caching Redis Elasticache Knowledge of scripting languages Python Knowledge of infrastructure automation Terraform Ansible Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI CD pipelines Razorpay believes in and follows an equal employment opportunity policy that doesn t discriminate on gender religion sexual orientation colour nationality age etc We welcome interests and applications from all groups and communities across the globe Follow us on