Lead Database Administrator

Razorpay Software Private Limited is hiring a Lead Database Administrator in Bengaluru.

Razorpay is one of India’s leading full-stack financial technology companies, powering the way businesses move, manage, and grow money. Founded in 2014 by Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar with a simple vision - to simplify payments for Indian businesses - we’ve since grown into a fintech powerhouse driving India’s digital payment revolution. Razorpay powers millions of businesses with a smarter, scalable stack that goes beyond transactions to help them truly build and grow. From building AI-native agentic payments, to AI-assisted fraud detection and real-time risk intelligence to automated re

Responsibilities

A Senior 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:

About Razorpay Software Private Limited

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