Lead MongoDB & NoSQL DB Engineer

MoEngage Inc.; Hinoba-an; On-site; PHP 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

MoEngage is seeking a senior MongoDB DBA to join our data infrastructure team. You will own the reliability and performance of large MongoDB clusters, operate in cloud environments, and work with Ansible and Terraform to automate operations.

You will monitor health metrics, implement self-healing and scaling, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with engineering to ensure high availability and fast data access for our real-time analytics platform.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Excellence: Constantly thrive to explore optimisations in database configurations, infrastructure, cost, new features, and performance improvements
• Engineering Excellence: Identify parts of the system that do not scale/non-reliable, provides immediate measures and drives long term resolution of such cases
• Engineering Excellence: Owning the reliability and availability of MongoDB and ScyllaDB infra in cloud - Servers (EC2 Instances), storage etc
• Engineering Excellence: Influence developers to adopt to right standards and practices which lead to ease of operations, higher reliability and cost efficiency
• Engineering Excellence: Build Self healing capabilities for the databases
• Operational Excellence: Enhancing the scalability and performance of existing database architecture - adding removing shards regularly
• Operational Excellence: Performing database maintenance, migration and upgrading hardware and software.
• Operational Excellence: 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
• Operational Excellence: Conducting diagnostic tests, evaluate performance metrics and ensure high availability or uptime of database services
• Operational Excellence: 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 elevate issues if required. Keep documentation of the on-call issues to avoid recurrence.

Skills

NoSQL/SQL databases

MongoDB DBA

Cloud hosting

Debugging

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

AWS ElastiCache

ScyllaDB (bonus)

Time Series DB (InfluxDB/Prometheus/Victoria Metrics)

Job description

MoEngage is seeking a senior MongoDB DBA to join our data infrastructure team. You will own the reliability and performance of large MongoDB clusters, operate in cloud environments, and work with Ansible and Terraform to automate operations.

You will monitor health metrics, implement self-healing and scaling, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with engineering to ensure high availability and fast data access for our real-time analytics platform.