Lead Database Administrator
Razorpay · Posted Oct 15
Online payment gateway, business banking, payroll, and financial services platform
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About the role
Razorpay's Engineering team builds and operates the infrastructure behind its payments products at significant scale, and this role sits within the database function responsible for the data stores that power those operations. The team works primarily with MySQL and PostgreSQL and manages database reliability, security, performance, and automation. The Lead Database Administrator will own database scalability and observability, partner with application and DevOps engineers on migrations and production incidents, and drive best practices, self-service tooling, and automation.
What you will do
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Have at least 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.
- Knowledge of caching (Redis / Elasticache)
- Knowledge of scripting languages (Python)
- Knowledge of infrastructure automation (Terraform/Ansible)
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Razorpay
Razorpay is India's leading omnichannel payments and full-stack financial solutions company, providing an extensive suite of products to accept, process, and disburse digital payments. Beyond payment gateways, the company offers neo-banking solutions via RazorpayX, business loans, payroll management, and corporate credit cards. It serves millions of businesses ranging from startups and SMEs to large enterprises globally.
- Industry
- Fintech
- Company size
- 3000+ employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- Bengaluru, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $742M raised
- 2021-12-19Series F$375M
- 2021-04-19Series E$160M
- 2020-10-12Series D$100M
- 2018-07-05Series C$75M
- 2016-07-12Series B$20M
Leadership
CEO and Co-founder
MD and Co-founder
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
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