Database Engineer

Sav.com; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Casual office environment

Best‑in‑class insurance benefits

Generous paid time off and sick days

Opportunities to work on high‑scale,AI

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Sav.com seeks a Database Administrator (DBA) with strong PostgreSQL and MySQL expertise to manage production databases and support engineering teams in Pune.

The role focuses on reliability, performance tuning, backups, recovery, schema design, and migrations, with hands‑on collaboration across software and ops teams.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of hands-on experience administering PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Strong understanding of relational database concepts and normalization.
• Experience with SQL performance tuning and query optimization.
• Proficiency in writing stored procedures, functions, views, and triggers.
• Knowledge of ACID transactions, locking, concurrency, and isolation levels.
• Experience with backup, recovery, replication, and database maintenance.
• Familiarity with Linux environments and database administration tools.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain PostgreSQL and MySQL databases in production environments.
• Monitor database availability, health, and performance.
• Perform routine maintenance, upgrades, backups, and recovery operations.
• Manage database users, roles, permissions, and security.
• Review and design database schemas; support migrations and versioning.
• Monitor and optimize SQL queries, execution plans, and indexing.
• Ensure data integrity and governance through proper design and transactions.
• Collaborate with software engineering and infrastructure teams on deployments.

Skills

Database administration

SQL performance tuning

Stored procedures & triggers

ACID transactions

Linux

Replication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

PgBouncer

Cloud databases

Job description

• Location: Pune, India
• Experience: 8–15 Year
• Employment Type: Full-Time

About Sav.com

Sav.com is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar and marketplace empowering creators and businesses to buy, sell, and manage their digital identity globally. We offer low-cost domain registration, complimentary features, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions—all powered by a modern, microservices-based platform handling high-scale traffic, real-time systems, and deep integrations across AI-driven and next-generation web technologies.

We are seeking a Database Administrator (DBA) with strong expertise in PostgreSQL and MySQL to manage and maintain our production databases. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring database reliability, performance, integrity, and availability while supporting engineering teams with schema design, SQL optimization, and database best practices.

This is a hands-on role requiring solid experience in database administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and database development.

Key Responsibilities:-

Database Administration

• Administer and maintain PostgreSQL and MySQL databases in production environments.
• Monitor database availability, health, and performance.
• Perform routine maintenance, upgrades, backups, and recovery operations.
• Manage database users, roles, permissions, and security.

Database Design & Development

• Review and recommend database schema designs.
• Develop and maintain stored procedures, functions, views, and other database objects.
• Support database migrations and schema version management.
• Ensure adherence to database design standards and best practices.

Performance & Optimization

• Monitor and optimize database performance.
• Analyze and tune SQL queries and execution plans.
• Design and maintain indexes to improve query efficiency.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

Data Integrity & Governance

• Ensure data consistency and integrity through proper database design and transaction management.
• Review SQL changes and database modifications before deployment.
• Monitor database growth and implement data archival and cleanup strategies.
• Maintain database documentation and operational standards.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Monitor database metrics, storage utilization, locks, and long-running queries.
• Support replication, backup validation, and disaster recovery processes.
• Troubleshoot database incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Participate in capacity planning and database scalability initiatives.
• Work closely with software engineering teams during application development.
• Provide guidance on SQL development and database best practices.
• Support release activities involving database changes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure reliable database operations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of hands-on experience administering PostgreSQL and MySQL databases.
• Strong understanding of relational database concepts and normalization.
• Experience with SQL performance tuning and query optimization.
• Proficiency in writing stored procedures, functions, views, and triggers.
• Knowledge of ACID transactions, locking, concurrency, and isolation levels.
• Experience with backup, recovery, replication, and database maintenance.
• Familiarity with Linux environments and database administration tools.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PostgreSQL replication, PgBouncer, or high‑availability solutions.
• Experience with cloud‑databases on cloud.
• Knowledge of partitioning, indexing strategies, and database scalability.
• Exposure to monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, or Datadog.
• Familiarity with version control and CI/CD processes involving database deployments.
• Experience supporting databases for microservices‑based applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

What We Offer:-

• Casual office environment with no dress code.
• Best‑in‑class insurance benefits for you.
• Generous paid time off and sick days, including maternity leave.
• Opportunity to work on real‑world, high‑scale systems — domains, auctions, and marketplace infrastructure.
• Exposure to cutting‑edge AI and platform engineering initiatives with direct product impact.
• Clear opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
• An ownership‑driven, collaborative culture with a strong engineering focus.