Senior Database Engineer

🔥 25 minutes ago

🇮🇳 India – Remote

💵 $120k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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1Kosmos

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

1Kosmos is a company that specializes in digital identity verification and passwordless authentication solutions. The company offers a unified platform called BlockID, enabling secure employee onboarding, customer authentication, and citizen identity verification. Using advanced biometric authentication and blockchain technology, 1Kosmos provides secure, convenient access for users while protecting against fraud and enhancing privacy. The platform caters to industries such as financial services, government, and healthcare, providing solutions that align with compliance standards like NIST and GDPR.

📋 Description

• Own day-to-day operations across MongoDB, Amazon DocumentDB, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift, including health checks, capacity, connections, and storage growth • Plan and execute database version upgrades, assessing driver compatibility, deprecated features, and query behavior changes against application code • Find and fix slow queries by profiling workloads and reading explain plans; design, add, or retire indexes • Run pre-deployment schema and data migrations with pre-checks, verification, and tested rollback • Manage versioned database migrations in Git through pull requests and CI with GitHub Actions • Handle customer data requests, including extracts, reports, corrections, and deletion requests, with approvals and audit trails • Maintain Redshift reporting access over Iceberg tables in S3, including external schemas, Spectrum, Glue Data Catalog, views, grants, and query performance • Own backup, point-in-time restore, and failover; rehearse and document restores • Manage database access, including users, roles, grants, secrets rotation, and access reviews for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits • Build and tune monitoring and alerting for query latency, replication lag, disk, connections, and cost • Respond to database incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and implement fixes • Automate repetitive DBA work with Python or Bash • Collaborate with Development, Customer Success, ML, and DevSecOps on releases, installations, and customer escalations • Participate in an on-call rotation

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) • 5+ years of experience administering production databases • Hands-on production experience with MongoDB or Amazon DocumentDB, including replica sets, indexing, TTL, and upgrades • Hands-on production experience with PostgreSQL • Strong SQL and experience with Amazon Redshift or a comparable analytical query engine (Athena, Trino, Snowflake, or BigQuery) • Track record of production database upgrades, including assessing application impact before the upgrade • Index design and query tuning driven by profiler and explain plan output • Experience running schema and data migrations as part of a release process • Backup, restore, and replication in production, with recovery that has actually been tested • Strong experience with AWS database and supporting services (RDS or Aurora, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch) • Proficiency in Python or Bash for automation • Experience with Git and CI-based change workflows • Experience handling PII and customer data under SOC 2, GDPR, or similar requirements • Habit of verifying changes and writing runbooks • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation • Remote, based in India

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual stipends for certifications • Conference attendance • Unlimited PTO • Fully remote work