Senior Database Engineer

About Us

slice

A new bank for a new India.

slice's purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We've all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we're reimagining it. We're building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, and slice business are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you'll get to build things you'd use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

We're backed by some of the world's leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.

About the Team

At slice, our Data team powers everything, from real-time transactions to ML-driven decisions. We operate at high scale, high concurrency, and strict reliability expectations.

You'll work on solving:

• Data consistency across distributed systems
• High-concurrency transactional workloads
• Resilient, zero-data-loss systems

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Database Engineer to design and operate next-generation distributed database systems.

This role will focus on building and scaling systems using CockroachDB, while evolving existing workloads from Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

What You Will Do

• Own and operate CockroachDB clusters (HA, multi-region setups)
• Drive migration from MS-SQL, PostgreSQL (RDS/Aurora) to CockroachDB
• Ensure high availability, strong consistency, and DR readiness
• Optimize performance (queries, indexing, workload distribution)
• Automate database infrastructure using Terraform / Ansible
• Build monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
• Partner with developers on schema design and query optimization
• Reliable distributed database platform in production
• Smooth migration of critical workloads with minimal downtime
• Strong HA/DR posture aligned with business SLAs
• Improved performance and developer experience

What You Will Need

• 5+ years in database engineering / DBA roles
• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL at production scale.
• Must have Hands-on experience with CockroachDB
• Solid understanding of:
• Distributed systems (replication, consistency, fault tolerance)
• Performance tuning and query optimization
• Backup, recovery, and DR strategies
• Experience with AWS database ecosystem (RDS, Aurora)
• Experience with monitoring and incident management

Good to Have

• Security and compliance exposure (PAM/DAM, auditing)
• Experience with multi-region architectures
• Exposure to CDC pipelines (Debezium, DMS)
• Experience with DynamoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, etc.

Why Join slice

• Work on modern distributed database systems at scale
• Solve complex reliability and performance challenges
• High ownership and impact on core platform

Life at slice

Life so good, you'd think we're kidding:

• Competitive salaries. Period.
• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We'll love you and take care of you, our promise.
• Flexible working hours. Just don't call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule.
• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.
• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.
• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding.
• Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you'll forget the term colleagues can't be your friends.