Cloud Database Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and oversee AWS RDS and Aurora environments, which include Aurora, MariaDB, and Postgres.

• Manage and enhance Apache Cassandra clusters within distributed, multi-region settings.

• Construct and sustain database infrastructure utilizing Terraform.

• Create reusable Terraform modules for RDS provisioning, networking and security settings, as well as backup and disaster recovery plans.

• Execute high availability and disaster recovery strategies, including multi-AZ setups, replicas, and cross-region failover mechanisms.

• Establish and uphold database platform standards for provisioning, configuration, and monitoring.

• Improve performance through query optimization, indexing tactics, and parameter adjustments.

• Develop observability and monitoring solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic.

• Automate operational processes and integrate them with CI/CD pipelines.

• Assist in migrating databases from on-premises environments to AWS and from RDBMS to Cassandra when applicable.

• Collaborate with engineering teams on schema design, data modeling, and scalability strategies.

• Engage in on-call rotations and take charge of incident response and root cause analysis.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in database engineering, SRE, or platform engineering roles.

• Strong practical experience with AWS RDS/Aurora in production settings.

• Proficiency in Terraform is essential; it is not optional.

• Experience with distributed databases like Cassandra is necessary.

• In-depth knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery strategies, performance tuning, and capacity planning.

• Comprehensive understanding of the AWS ecosystem, including RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch.

• Experience in building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code at scale, encompassing Terraform modules, state management, and CI/CD integration.

• Background in Linux systems administration.

• Strong troubleshooting abilities and experience in managing production incidents.

• Preferred: experience with Kubernetes-based database deployments, AWS DMS or migration frameworks, DataStax, Astra DB or managed Cassandra services, DevOps/GitOps workflows, and multi-cloud environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous time off policies.

• Top-tier benefits.

• Support for education, wellness, and lifestyle initiatives.