Database Platform Engineer

Role: Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer (SDE3)

Function: Data Infrastructure / Platform Engineering

Location: Bengaluru

Type: Full-time

Industry: Information Technology & Services, Computer Software, Fintech

About Company

An enterprise tech startup founded in 2016 and based in Bengaluru. The company builds India's paperless digital infrastructure — covering digital identity verification, legal e-signing, document automation, eNACH payment automation, and e-KYC.

It serves 1,500+ enterprises and 100 million individual users. The company runs lean at 90 people, with 40 engineers, and operates at the intersection of financial inclusion and regulatory-grade reliability.

Its culture rewards ownership, first-principles thinking, and craftsmanship over process.

Position Overview

This is a founding seat on the company's Platform Pod — a greenfield infrastructure team with a P0 mandate. As the Data Infrastructure SME, you will own the entire database estate: performance, replication, backup/DR, capacity, and cost across high-throughput transactional systems underpinning payments, identity, e-sign, and compliance products. You will also define the data-layer standards and self-serve tooling that product teams across a 40-engineer organisation depend on.

Build the database platform behind high-scale, mission-critical systems.

We're looking for a Data Infrastructure SME who can own databases beyond day-to-day operations — from performance and reliability to migrations, automation and platformization.

You'll work with MySQL, PostgreSQL, TiDB-class distributed systems and help build the foundation for a future self-serve database platform / DBaaS.

What You'll Own

• Own production database infrastructure across performance, replication, backup/DR, upgrades, capacity and cost.
• Drive schema, query and migration best practices across engineering teams.
• Work deeply with MySQL/PostgreSQL internals and distributed SQL/NoSQL systems at scale.
• Design and automate database provisioning, lifecycle management, recovery and upgrades.
• Lead large-scale production migrations with minimal downtime and zero data loss.
• Build database capabilities for customer-controlled/on-prem environments, where hands-on access may be limited.
• Partner with engineering teams to build self-service tooling, guardrails and future DBaaS capabilities.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of deep hands-on production database ownership.
• Internals-level expertise in PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Experience with distributed SQL/NoSQL databases at scale.
• Proven experience with database automation, self-service tooling or DBaaS/platform engineering.
• Track record of successfully executing critical production database migrations.
• Strong understanding of HA, replication, DR, performance tuning and capacity planning.

Bonus Points

Experience with TiDB / CockroachDB / YugabyteDB, Kubernetes/Terraform, or banking, payments, fintech and other transaction-critical systems.

If you've built and operated databases at scale — and want to turn that expertise into a platform — we'd love to hear from you.

What We Offer

• Founding seat on the Platform Pod — greenfield mandate with P0 priority and direct influence over infrastructure decisions across a 40-engineer organisation
• Ownership of a domain that touches every product — payments, identity, e-sign, and compliance — with real SLA accountability
• Lean, high-trust environment: 90-person company where platform decisions ship fast and your work is visible to leadership