About this role
Paytm is one of India's largest payments companies and this is a deep database engineering role behind it. Two things make it worth flagging. First, the posting states explicitly that it is an individual contributor position, which is unusually clear for a role with Lead in the title and resolves the ambiguity most such listings leave open. Second, the breadth is real: primary ownership of MySQL in production and staging plus architecture and support for MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Cassandra clusters. You would own backup, recovery, high availability and disaster recovery strategy across all of them, drive performance tuning at high volume, own replication, clustering and failover, and build self healing automation and predictive scaling. No years figure is published, so we have left that field blank rather than invent one.
Who this is for
The posting publishes no years of experience figure, so our experience field is empty and this role will not appear under any experience filter here. It describes the level instead as a database senior technical lead operating as an individual contributor, with deep expertise in MySQL and strong working knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Cassandra.
Day to day, as the posting numbers them: end to end ownership of MySQL databases in production and staging covering availability, performance and reliability; architecting, managing and supporting MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Cassandra clusters for scale and resilience; defining and enforcing backup, recovery, high availability and disaster recovery strategies across all critical database platforms; driving database performance engineering including query tuning, schema optimisation, indexing and partitioning for high volume workloads; owning replication, clustering and failover architectures for business continuity; championing automation and AI driven operations including self healing scripts, predictive scaling and proactive monitoring; collaborating with cloud and DevOps teams on AWS database services including RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, EC2 and S3 to optimise cost, security and performance; establishing monitoring dashboards and alerting for slow queries, replication lag, deadlocks and capacity planning; ensuring compliance and security standards including encryption and auditing; leading incident management and on call rotations to minimise mean time to recovery; and contributing to database roadmaps and automation strategy.
The posting says the role leads by example and partners with DevOps, site reliability and product engineering teams.
Location is Noida. No office day count and no interview process are published.
Fit note: on call is explicitly part of this role. At payments scale that is a meaningful commitment, so ask about rotation size and escalation practice.
Day to day, as the posting numbers them: end to end ownership of MySQL databases in production and staging covering availability, performance and reliability; architecting, managing and supporting MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Cassandra clusters for scale and resilience; defining and enforcing backup, recovery, high availability and disaster recovery strategies across all critical database platforms; driving database performance engineering including query tuning, schema optimisation, indexing and partitioning for high volume workloads; owning replication, clustering and failover architectures for business continuity; championing automation and AI driven operations including self healing scripts, predictive scaling and proactive monitoring; collaborating with cloud and DevOps teams on AWS database services including RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, EC2 and S3 to optimise cost, security and performance; establishing monitoring dashboards and alerting for slow queries, replication lag, deadlocks and capacity planning; ensuring compliance and security standards including encryption and auditing; leading incident management and on call rotations to minimise mean time to recovery; and contributing to database roadmaps and automation strategy.
The posting says the role leads by example and partners with DevOps, site reliability and product engineering teams.
Location is Noida. No office day count and no interview process are published.
Fit note: on call is explicitly part of this role. At payments scale that is a meaningful commitment, so ask about rotation size and escalation practice.
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