Lead Database Engineer

About MoEngage:

MoEngage is an insights-led customer engagement platform trusted by 1,350+ global consumer brands, including McAfee, Flipkart, Domino’s, Nestle, Deutsche Telekom, and OYO. MoEngage combines data from multiple sources to help brands gain a 360-degree view of their customers.

About Team:

Our team is the backbone of MoEngage, we manage TBs of data for multiple teams, which we store in more than 50 clusters and handle 500+ EC2 servers in over 5 regions. Our team is responsible for installation, configuration, upgrade, and migration of databases. We work closely with developers of applications that run against the database to make sure that best practices are followed for good performance and results.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Constantly thrive to explore optimisations in database configurations, infrastructure, cost, new features, and performance improvements
• Identify parts of the system that do not scale/non-reliable, provides immediate measures and drives long term resolution of such cases
• Owning the reliability and availability of MongoDB and ScyllaDB infra in cloud - Servers (EC2 Instances), storage etc
• Influence developers to adopt to right standards and practices which lead to ease of operations, higher reliability and cost efficiency
• Build Self healing capabilities for the databases

Requirements :

• 6+ years hands-on experience on NoSQL/SQL databases with at least 4 year as DBA on MongoDB.
• Experience in hosting and maintaining and owning large MongoDB clusters on the cloud.
• Experienc in scripting language and tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Great in debugging skills, should be able to look at related metrics and narrow down possible causes of the problem. Dive deep/reproduce those issues. Communicate with the application team and bring them to closure.
• Bonus if experienced in managing ScyllaDB clusters, AWS ElastiCache.
• Bonus if experience in one or more of the Time Series Databases - like InfluxDB, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics.