Staff Data Reliability Engineer - India

Database Performance Optimization

Analyze and resolve severe database bottlenecks, high latency, lock contention, blockings, and deadlocks across enterprise OLTP and OLAP systems.

Deep-dive into SQL execution plans, index strategies, partitioning, memory allocation, and I/O tuning to maximize database throughput, Parameters Tuning

Monitor dynamic performance views (pg_stat_statements, pg_stat_activity, V$, DBA_, AWR, ADDM, execution plans) to proactively identify slow queries and system-level resource constraints.

Architect and implement table partitioning, indexing, materialization, and caching strategies.

Analyze complex EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) execution plans to optimize slow queries, rewrite inefficient SQL, and design optimal indexing strategies (B-Tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN).

Monitoring, Reliability & Observability

Set up comprehensive database observability metrics using native GCP/CloudWatch/Azure Monitor platforms.

Establish SLOs/SLIs for database latency, query response times, and connection pooling.

Lead high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) setup, testing, and continuous optimization.

• Nice-To-Have:
• Database DevOps & Infrastructure

Implement Database Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform , KCC etc.

Build automated database deployment pipelines using Git CI/CD , Jenkins .

Manage automated database schema changes and migrations using tools like Liquibase or Flyway .

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of core database engineering experience, with at least 5+ years specializing in deep Database tuning
• Database Mastery: Deep understanding of Database internal architecture. Willing to learn new DB technologies with Cloud first mindset
• Execution Plan Diagnostics: Advanced ability to analyze execution plans, join order decisions, index usage, and system-level disk I/O bottlenecks.
• Scripting: Automation proficiency in Shell or Python ,
• High Availability Tools: Direct experience setting up and troubleshooting.

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