Software Engineering Team Leader (Engineering Manager) Comdb2, Pune

Our Team

Comdb2 is a Bloomberg-developed open-source relational database system powering approximately 77000 active databases at Bloomberg across a wide range of use cases supporting over 80% of Bloombergs data store. The Comdb2 Platform Engineering team ensures continuous availability high performance and feature stability for all Comdb2 instances while keeping them modern scalable and user friendly for both individual engineers and enterprise level workloads.

Our team plays a pivotal role in supporting the daily workflows of more than 9000 software engineers at Bloomberg. With Comdb2 serving a global user base across the entire Engineering organization were excited to expand our footprint by launching a new Comdb2 Platform Engineering team in Pune India.

Collaboration is central to our approach. By engaging with a wide range of engineering teams across Bloomberg we gain valuable insights and a well-rounded understanding of the broader engineering environment. These partnerships help us stay aligned with evolving needs and contribute meaningfully across the organization.

Whats the role

We are looking for a highly skilled and proactive Team Leader to head our new Comdb2 Platform Engineering team in Pune India with strong expertise in people management and the ability to leverage SRE principles to build the scalable automated systems that keep our global infrastructure running smoothly.

This role blends deep technical expertise with hands-on leadership focusing on operational excellence team mentorship and driving innovation in database reliability at scale. You will work closely with engineering DevOps and product teams to implement best practices in automation observability and incident management ensuring our database platforms remain robust performant and future ready.

Well trust you to:

• Build up the Comdb2 Platform Engineering Pune team from the ground up recruiting and hiring for the open positions on the team establishing a collaborative team culture focused on developing reliable high-quality software critical to the entire Bloomberg Engineering organization

• Provide mentorship and guidance to team members fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.

• Provide technical leadership on all projects tackled by the team

• Work with senior management on prioritizing high-impact projects that help ensure firm-wide stability and propose ideas to improve Comdb2 workflows across Engineering

• Design intuitive tools and automation for provisioning scaling failover backup and recovery of databases

• Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps teams to design resilient database architectures sophisticated testing frameworks and robust CI/CD pipelines

• Participate in on-call rotations to support database-related incidents and outages and improve system reliability through comprehensive incident analysis

• Provide guidance best practices and recommendations to database owners regarding performance tuning query optimization and capacity planning

• Support database schema design migrations and data lifecycle management

Youll need to have:

• Track record of leadership managing and coaching teams and influencing technology strategy

• Experience and interest in mentoring other engineers and helping their career growth at Bloomberg

• Demonstrated a strong reliability-first mindset with the ability to anticipate detect and mitigate issues across large-scale systems

• Demonstrated software engineering experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Python

• An understanding of how to make changes to a large-scale live production system safely and responsibly without causing any impact to our users

Wed love to see:

• Experience managing databases in Kubernetes or other containerized environments

• Experience in at least one RDBMS (Comdb2 PostgreSQL MySQL Oracle) and/or NoSQL platform (MongoDB Redis Cassandra)

• Knowledge of replication sharding and multiregional deployment strategies

• Experience leading or being the founding member of a newly established team
• Experience with C and/or C

If this sounds like you:

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