Database Administrator - Bengaluru, India - Razorpay

Razorpay

Verified Company

Bengaluru, India

1 week ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

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.

We are a fullstack 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 Razorpay X) and enabling capital availability for businesses (via Razorpay Capital).

The Role:

Database Administrator is critical to the project's overall success, right from planning to supporting primary KPI as customer satisfaction and productivity.

A Database Administrator Expert has an essential role in integrating the project functions and resources across the product life cycle, right from planning, building, testing, and deployment to support.

Responsibilities

Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our database infrastructure.
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 databaserelated production incidents.
Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing selfservice 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 24 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 problemsolving skills and ability to work in a fastpaced environment.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within crossfunctional teams.

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