Senior Database Engineer

CENTURY GAMES PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Century Games Pte. Ltd. is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to plan, deploy, monitor, and maintain production databases with a focus on performance and data compliance. You will establish standards for changes, backups, and incident response; collaborate with the R&D team on SQL reviews and query optimization.

The role requires a strong background in MySQL/Redis, advanced SQL, and cloud database platforms, plus the ability to resolve production issues while ensuring governance and risk control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field; 5+ years of database experience.
• Proficient in data development, operations and governance technologies.
• Familiar with cloud database families and SQL standards.

Responsibilities

• Plan, deploy, monitor, and maintain production databases with performance and data compliance.
• Formulate standards for changes, access controls, backups, inspections and incident response.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks, anomalies and production incidents promptly.
• Collaborate with R&D on SQL reviews, query optimization, and usage guidelines.

Skills

Database performance tuning

Production incident response

Cross-team collaboration

On-call duties

Risk management

Change control

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Job description

Senior Database Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, performance optimization, and data compliance of the company's production databases.
• Formulate and implement standards for database changes, access controls, backups, routine inspections, and emergency response; establish and enforce data compliance protocols.
• Promptly identify and resolve database performance bottlenecks, operational anomalies, and production incidents.
• Collaborate with the R&D team on SQL reviews, query optimization, and the establishment of database usage guidelines.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field; possess 5+ years of relevant experience in database-related roles; proficient in technologies related to data development, operations, and governance.
• Familiar with database or caching systems such as MySQL and Redis; proficient in one or more SQL standards; familiar with database products from at least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud).
• Capable of database performance diagnosis and tuning; able to independently resolve issues such as slow queries, lock contention, master-slave replication lag, connection anomalies, and resource bottlenecks.
• Strong awareness of risk management and change control; exercises caution and adheres to standards when operating in production environments. Highly responsible with the ability to clearly resolve production incidents.
• Solid communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams; capable of clearly explaining complex technical issues and driving their resolution. Willing to undertake necessary on-call duties and emergency incident response.