Razorpay

Senior Database Administrator

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Razorpay was founded by<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumarshashank/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumarshashank/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660290870959000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1H2eeqfjnUDt3iT_Cg-jfh"> Shashank Kumar</a> and<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshilmathur/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshilmathur/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660290870959000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3k1sK1wrIz5HKLsZA8-mTC"> Harshil Mathur</a> 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.&nbsp;</span></p> <div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are a full-stack 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<a href="https://razorpay.com/x/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://razorpay.com/x/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660290870959000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ab_bX0WbaTqedmVsyWBbZ"> Razorpay X</a>) and enabling capital availability for businesses (via<a href="https://razorpay.com/capital/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://razorpay.com/capital/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660290870959000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ymFZuuzdG2i4lPyqQYP5I"> Razorpay Capital</a>).&nbsp;</span></div></div><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our database infrastructure.</li> <li>Work closely with application teams to ship solutions that integrate seamlessly with our database systems.</li> <li>Analyze solutions and implement best practices for supported datastores(Primarily MySQL , PostgreSQL).</li> <li>Develop and enforce best practices for database security, backup, and recovery.</li> <li>Work on the observability of relevant database metrics and make sure we reach our database objectives.</li> <li>Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations).</li> <li>Work with peers(DevOps, Application Engineers) to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents.</li> <li>Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools.</li> <li>OnCall support on rotation with the team.</li> <li>Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack.</li> <li>Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.</li> <li>Perform regular system monitoring, troubleshooting, and capacity planning to ensure scalability.</li> <li>Create and maintain documentation on database configurations, processes, and procedures.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>Have at least 4-8 years of experience running MySQL/PostgreSQL databases in large Environments.</li> <li>Awareness of cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).</li> <li>Have knowledge of the internals of MySQL/PostgreSQL.</li> <li>Knowledge of load balancing solutions such as ProxySQL to distribute database traffic efficiently across multiple servers.</li> <li>Knowledge of tools and methods for monitoring database performance.</li> <li>Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.</li> <li>Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within cross-functional teams.</li> </ul> <p><strong>The Nice-to-Haves</strong></p> <ul> <li>Knowledge of caching (Redis / Elasticache)</li> <li>Knowledge on scripting languages (Python)</li> <li>Knowledge of infrastructure automation (Terraform/Ansible)</li> <li>Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span id="m_2989597180337834284gmail-m_4972969247898306296gmail-docs-internal-guid-3a65a3c2-7fff-88ff-9e94-8ab11a050d04">Razorpay believes in and follows an equal employment opportunity policy that doesn't discriminate on gender, religion, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, age, etc. We welcome interests and applications from all groups and communities across the globe. </span><br></span></div> <div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span id="m_2989597180337834284gmail-m_4972969247898306296gmail-docs-internal-guid-3d0a9248-7fff-a2fd-6fa3-5026f85768d7">Follow us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/razorpay/mycompany/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/company/razorpay/mycompany/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660290870959000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0f6sCrv8Ce3IHBvN2Sev8Z">LinkedIn</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/Razorpay" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/Razorpay&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660290870959000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ViuP9uutFg1qFCm2nHeh1">Twitter</a></span></span></div></div>


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