This is not a siloed infrastructure-only role – you will partner deeply with developers from design to production, provide input on data modeling and query optimization, and ensure best practices across the board, from schema design to observability, disaster recovery, and upgrades.
We are in a period of hyper-growth – both in terms of customer adoption and engineering scale. This brings exciting challenges in performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and reliability. Youll play a key role in shaping how our data infrastructure supports this scale and future-proofs our platform.
Key Responsibilities
Own and operate production and pre-production databases, including:
MongoDB (Atlas)
Redis (AWS ElastiCache Valkey)
RabbitMQ (EC2-based cluster)
Additional databases as our platform evolves
Work closely with developers to optimize data models, indexes, and queries across the SDLC (design, QA, staging, production).
Partner with SREs to ensure high availability (99.99% uptime), disaster recovery, monitoring, and performance tuning.
Plan and execute schema changes, index strategies, and database version upgrades with zero or minimal downtime.
Set up and enforce backup, restore, and retention policies aligned with compliance and availability needs.
Implement and maintain observability tools and alerting for the data infrastructure.
Lead cost optimization of all data services – rightsizing, usage analysis, cleanup, and architecture alignment.
Troubleshoot and resolve data-related incidents; participate in on-call rotations and post-mortems as needed.
3+ years of hands-on experience as a DBA in production-grade environments.
Deep knowledge of MongoDB (Atlas) and Redis; experience with RabbitMQ or similar message brokers is a strong advantage.
Experience operating databases in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
Proficient in scripting and automation (Bash, Python, or similar).
Strong understanding of HA architectures, replication, and failover strategies.
Comfortable working across the stack: infrastructure, application logic, monitoring, and CI/CD.
Team player with excellent communication skills and a collaborative, service-oriented approach.
