Site Reliability Engineer - Database (7 to 10 Years)
Site Reliability Engineer - Database (7 to 10 Years)
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About PhonePe Limited:
Headquartered in India its flagship product the PhonePe digital payments app was launched in Aug 2016. As of April 2025 PhonePe has over 60 Crore (600 Million) registered users and a digital payments acceptance network spread across over 4 Crore (40 million) merchants. PhonePe also processes over 33 Crore (330 Million) transactions daily with an Annualized Total Payment Value (TPV) of over INR 150 lakh crore.
PhonePes portfolio of businesses includes the distribution of financial products (InsuranceLending and Wealth) as well as new consumer tech businesses (Pincode - hyperlocal e-commerce and Indus AppStore Localized App Store for the Android ecosystem) in Indiawhich are aligned with the companys vision to offer every Indian an equal opportunity toaccelerate their progress by unlocking the flow of money and access to services.
Culture:
At PhonePe we go the extra mile to make sure you can bring your best self to work Everyday!. And that starts with creating the right environment for you. We empower people and trust them to do the right thing. Here you own your work from start to finish right from day one. PhonePe-rs solve complex problems and execute quickly; often building frameworks from scratch. If youre excited by the idea of building platforms that touch millions ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your dreams with purpose and speed join us!
Site Reliability Engineer - Database
Experience: 7 tp 10 Years
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced SRE Engineer (7 to 10 years of experience) with deep expertise in MySQL database administration and a solid foundation in Linux systems engineering. You will play a critical role in ensuring the resilience scalability and performance of our distributed high-volume database infrastructure spanning tens of terabytes of data across multiple data this role you will be expected to design build and lead initiatives to improve reliability and efficiency across the database stack mentor SRE/DBA team members and drive strategic improvements to infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Database Architecture & Management: Lead the design provisioning and lifecycle management of large-scale MySQL/Galera multi-master clusters across multiple geographic locations.
- Reliability Engineering: Develop and implement database reliability strategies including automated failure recovery and disaster recovery solutions.
- Troubleshooting & Support: Investigate and resolve database-related issues including performance problems connectivity issues and data corruption.
- Performance optimization & Security: Own and continuously improve performance tuning including query optimization indexing and resource management security hardening and high availability of database systems.
- Operational Excellence:
- Standardize and automate database operational tasks such as upgrades backups schema changes and replication management.
- Drive capacity planning monitoring and incident response across infrastructure.
- Incident Management: Proactively identify diagnose and resolve complexproduction issues in collaboration with the engineering team.
- On-Call & Tooling:
- Participate in and enhance on-call rotations implementing tools to reduce alert fatigue and human error.
- Develop and maintain observability tooling for database systems.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Mentor and guide junior and mid-level SREs andDBAs fostering knowledge sharing and skill development within the team.
Skills and Qualifications
Core Expertise:
- Expertise in Linux systems administration scripting (Bash/Python) filesystems disk management and debugging system-level performanceissues.
- 78 years of hands-on experience in MySQL database administration inlarge-scale high-availability environments.
- Deep understanding of MySQL internals InnoDB storage enginereplication mechanisms (async semi-sync Galera) and tuningparameters.
- Proven experience managing 100 production clusters and databaseslarger than 1TB in size.
Preferred Experience:
- Hands-on experience with Galera clusters is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Ansible Terraform orsimilar.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana orPercona Monitoring & Management.
- Exposure to other NOSQL (e.g. Aerospike) will be a plus.
- Experience working in on-premise environments is highly desirable.
Leadership & Communication:
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives including databasemigrations major version upgrades and scaling efforts.
- Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated track record ofmentoring and technical leadership.
PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits (Not applicable for Intern or Contract Roles)
- Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance Critical Illness Insurance Accidental Insurance Life Insurance
- Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program Onsite Medical Center Emergency Support System
- Parental Support - Maternity Benefit Paternity Benefit Program Adoption Assistance Program Day-care Support Program
- Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits Transfer Support Policy Travel Policy
- Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution Flexible PF Contribution Gratuity NPS Leave Encashment
- Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance Car Lease Salary Advance Policy
Our inclusive culture promotes individual expression creativity innovation and achievement and in turn helps us better understand and serve our customers. We see ourselves as a place for intellectual curiosity ideas and debates where diverse perspectives lead to deeper understanding and better quality results. PhonePe is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to treating all its employees and job applicants equally; regardless of gender sexual preference religion race color or disability. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or reasonable accommodation during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please fill out this form.
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