This role will contribute to 
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<li>Reliability, Availability and Security of the critical database infrastructure at Swiggy (MySQL, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch and Redis)</li>
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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Observing, identifying and correcting performance and scale bottlenecks of these databases.</li>
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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Automating/Codifying repetitive operations and providing self service tools</li>
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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">De-risking data availability using highly consistent data backup/restore methods.</li>
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What qualities are we looking for? 
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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Familiarity with software engineering practices including unit testing, code reviews, and design documentation.</li>
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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">An interest in building internal products with other engineers as your customers.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Experience with AWS and Kubernetes.</li>
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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Track record of building self-service and high-quality platforms for developers with a customer-driven mindset.</li>
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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Curiosity about how things work and love to share that knowledge with others. </li>
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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">1-3 years of professional experience in a software environment· </li>
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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college. </li>
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What you should have? 
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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Hands-on experience with datastores like MySQL, PostgreSQL on AWS or similar infrastructure platforms</li>
</ul>

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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Hands on experience on Amazon DynamoDB and DAX will be a plus &amp; preferable </li>
</ul>

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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Hands-on with Datastore management principles and practices (Availability, Backup management, performance management, security, proactive monitoring, encryption etc)</li>
</ul>

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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Experience in building and operating large distributed datastore infra.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Understanding of operating systems, virtualization, containerization is a plus </li>
</ul>

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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Hands-on coding on any of the languages like Bash, Python or GoLang is a plus</li>
</ul>

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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Familiarity with software engineering practices like unit testing, code reviews, and design documentation.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="margin-left:1.6rem;">Strong debugging and problem-solving skills </li>
</ul>

Database Administrator in Bengaluru (UID-6423)

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