Senior Lead Database Engineer
Q2 (company site, opens in a new tab)12+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 35–55 LPA
Posted 14h ago
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About This Role
- Own complex database performance and scalability issues across SQL Server, Postgres, and Aurora; deliver durable improvements to queries, schemas, and workloads.
- Build automation for performance diagnosis and remediation, and shape database-backed API, cloud, and deployment practices with application and platform teams.
- Act as an enterprise database authority: guide architecture and standards, lead modernization or migration work, and mentor engineers.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: Typically 12+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 8+ years with an advanced degree, or equivalent related work experience.
- Expert-level knowledge is required across SQL performance tuning; SQL Server, Postgres, and Aurora; query plans, indexing, statistics, and transaction isolation; database-backed APIs; Terraform; AWS and Azure managed databases; distributed-system performance; CI/CD; capacity planning and cost optimization; and AI-based bottleneck identification.
- Fluent written and oral English communication.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Has a track record of improving database performance at scale and can diagnose issues across execution plans, concurrency, locking, resource use, and distributed workloads.
- Can influence enterprise architecture and strategy, lead modernization or migration efforts, and establish database performance, governance, and quality standards.
- Likely to fit a cross-functional technical-authority role that combines hands-on database optimization, automation, cloud infrastructure, and mentoring.