Lead Database Engineer

About MoEngage:

MoEngage is an insights-led customer engagement platform trusted by 1,350+ global consumer brands, including McAfee, Flipkart, Domino’s, Nestle, Deutsche Telekom, and OYO. MoEngage combines data from multiple sources to help brands gain a 360-degree view of their customers. 

MoEngage Analytics arms marketers and product owners with insights into customer behavior. Brands can leverage MoEngage Personalize to orchestrate journeys and build 1:1 conversations across the website, mobile, email, social, and messaging channels. MoEngage Inform, the transactional messaging infrastructure, helps unify promotional and transactional communication to a single platform for better insights and lower costs. MoEngage’s AI Suite helps marketers develop winning copies and creatives, optimize campaigns and channels that boost engagement, and help with faster execution.

For over a decade, consumer brands in 60+ countries have been using MoEngage to power digital experiences for over a billion monthly customers. With offices in 15 countries, MoEngage is backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, B Capital, Steadview Capital, Multiples Private Equity, Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital, Matrix Partners, Ventureast, and Helion Ventures.

MoEngage was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Real-Time Interaction Management, Q1 2024 report, and Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™ 2023 report. MoEngage was also featured as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Omni-Channel Marketing Platforms for B2C Enterprises 2023.

About Team:

Our team is the backbone of MoEngage, we manage TBs of data for multiple teams, which we store in more than 50 clusters and handle 500+ EC2 servers in over 5 regions. Our team is responsible for installation, configuration, upgrade, and migration of databases. We work closely with developers of applications that run against the database to make sure that best practices are followed for good performance and results.

 We process, in real time, more than 40 Billion events per month. On an average day we send more than 3 Billion Intelligent push notifications through our systems and build stats for them, all in real time. Processing Speed is super critical to everything we do. As a team member, you will be constantly challenged to save those extra milliseconds and nanoseconds from your processing time. We are a small and close-knit team, we believe in learning and growing together.

Roles and Responsibilities :

Engineering Excellence:

• Constantly thrive to explore optimisations in database configurations, infrastructure, cost, new features, and performance improvements

• Identify parts of the system that do not scale/non-reliable, provides immediate measures and drives long term resolution of such cases

• Owning the reliability and availability of MongoDB and ScyllaDB infra in cloud - Servers (EC2 Instances), storage etc

• Influence developers to adopt to right standards and practices which lead to ease of operations, higher reliability and cost efficiency

• Build Self healing capabilities for the databases

Operational Excellence

• Enhancing the scalability and performance of existing database architecture -  adding removing shards regularly

• Performing database maintenance, migration and upgrading hardware and software.

• Monitor the overall health parameters of the clusters like CPU Utilisation, Memory utilisation, Operation Execution times, Replication lag, load balancing of data and queries and identify the stress areas

• Conducting diagnostic tests, evaluate performance metrics and ensure high availability or uptime of database services

• Documenting processes and complying with best practices in database management

Automation Mindset

• Look for opportunities to reduce toil by using automation. Keen in bringing new ideas for automating day-to-day database operations using code. 

On-call

• Be a part of the on-call rotation and be the first responder to all database-related issues. During on-call, being able to respond, mitigate, fix, and escalate issues if required. Keep documentation of the on-call issues to avoid recurrence.

Requirements :

• 6+ years hands-on experience on NoSQL/SQL databases with at least 4 year as DBA on MongoDB.
• Experience in hosting and maintaining and owning large MongoDB clusters on the cloud.
• Experienc in scripting language and tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Great in debugging skills, should be able to look at related metrics and narrow down possible causes of the problem. Dive deep/reproduce those issues. Communicate with the application team and bring them to closure.
• Bonus if experienced in managing ScyllaDB clusters, AWS ElastiCache.
• Bonus if experience in one or more of the Time Series Databases - like InfluxDB, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics.

At MoEngage, we respect and value differences. We believe that when people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives collaborate, we create the most value – for our clients, our employees, and society. We embrace diversity and uphold a strong set of values. We are committed to inclusivity and take pride in providing equal opportunities for success and growth.

Employment at MoEngage is based solely on professional competence, skills, and experience. We stand firmly against all forms of discrimination and support equal rights and opportunities regardless of gender, ethnicity, abilities, age, identity, orientation or expression, marital status (including pregnancy), religion and beliefs, or any other status protected by law.

It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state, and local laws related to non-discrimination and equal opportunity. MoEngage is truly a place where everyone can bring their passions, authentic selves, and talents to work, collaborating to drive progress and solve meaningful challenges.

Why Join Us!

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We handle more than a billion messages every day. Rest assured, you will be surrounded by really smart and passionate people as we scale much more to build a world-class technology team.