MySQL - Senior Lead Database Engineer

About us
Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.

Role Overview
We are seeking a Database STL (Individual Contributor) with deep expertise in MySQL and strong working knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra. This role combines hands-on database administration and optimization with strategic ownership of database reliability, automation, and cloud adoption. The candidate will lead by example—driving technical excellence, influencing best practices, and partnering cross-functionally with DevOps, SRE, and product engineering teams to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable database platforms.

Key Responsibilities

1. End-to-End Ownership of MySQL databases in production & staging—availability, performance, and reliability.
2. Architect, manage, and support MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra clusters for scale and resilience.
3. Define and enforce backup, recovery, HA, and DR strategies across all critical database platforms.
4. Drive database performance engineering—tuning queries, optimizing schemas, indexing, and partitioning for high-volume workloads.
5. Own replication, clustering, and failover architectures ensuring business continuity.
6. Champion automation & AI-driven operations—design self-healing scripts, predictive scaling, and proactive monitoring solutions. Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps teams on AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, EC2, S3) to optimize cost, security, and performance.
7. Establish monitoring dashboards & alerting mechanisms for slow queries, replication lag, deadlocks, and capacity planning. Ensure compliance & security standards—encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.
8. Lead incident management & on-call rotations, ensuring rapid response and minimal MTTR.
9. Act as a strategic technical partner, contributing to database roadmaps, automation strategy, and adoption of AI-driven DBA practices

• Why join us: Because you get an opportunity to make a difference, and have a great time doing that
  You are challenged and encouraged here to do stuff that is meaningful for you and for those we serve
  You should work with us if you think seriously about what technology can do for people
  We are successful, and our successes are rooted in our people's collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer, and that's how it will always be.
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Compensation:
If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you.
With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it.
India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!

1. End-to-End Ownership of MySQL databases in production & staging—availability, performance, and reliability.
2. Architect, manage, and support MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra clusters for scale and resilience.
3. Define and enforce backup, recovery, HA, and DR strategies across all critical database platforms.
4. Drive database performance engineering—tuning queries, optimizing schemas, indexing, and partitioning for high-volume workloads.
5. Own replication, clustering, and failover architectures ensuring business continuity.
6. Champion automation & AI-driven operations—design self-healing scripts, predictive scaling, and proactive monitoring solutions. Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps teams on AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, EC2, S3) to optimize cost, security, and performance.
7. Establish monitoring dashboards & alerting mechanisms for slow queries, replication lag, deadlocks, and capacity planning. Ensure compliance & security standards—encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.
8. Lead incident management & on-call rotations, ensuring rapid response and minimal MTTR.
9. Act as a strategic technical partner, contributing to database roadmaps, automation strategy, and adoption of AI-driven DBA practices.