About PhonePe Group:
PhonePe is India’s leading digital payments company with 50 crore (500 Million) registered users and 3.7 crore (37 Million) merchants covering over 99% of the postal codes across India. On the back of its leadership in digital payments, PhonePe has expanded into financial services (Insurance, Mutual Funds, Stock Broking, and Lending) as well as adjacent tech-enabled businesses such as Pincode for hyperlocal shopping and Indus App Store which is India's first localized App Store. The PhonePe Group is a portfolio of businesses aligned with the company's vision to offer every Indian an equal opportunity to accelerate their progress by unlocking the flow of money and access to services.
Culture
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SRE - Systems
Job description
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We are looking for an experienced MySQL database administrator with a good understanding of Linux
systems who will be responsible for ensuring the performance, availability, and security of clusters of
MySQL instances. You will be responsible for orchestrating upgrades, backups, performance monitoring
and provisioning of database instances for a high demand fast growing environment with tens of
Terabytes of data. These are engineers who are passionate about reliability, performance, and efficiency,
and with experience in building tools, services, and automation to manage and improve production
services.
Responsibilities
o Provision and manage farms of multimaster MySQL/galera clusters (Linux) across geographical
locations
o Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases
o Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration.
o Manage database changes. ( alters & other ddls )
o Manage infrastructure components outside DB systems and ensuring overall reliability of service
o Troubleshoot issues across the stack - hardware, software, application, and network
o Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
o Participate in oncall rotation
Skills and Qualifications
o Experience in Linux is a must
o Strong proficiency in MySQL database management
- worked with large farms of db clusters 10+
- large size of db's 1TB+
o Understanding of MySQL’s underlying storage engines( InnoDB) and experience with replication
configuration
o Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL
o Ability to plan resource requirements from high level specifications
o Ability to effectively manage / augment capacity
o Familiarity with other SQL/NoSQL databases is a plus
o Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational
databases is a plus
o Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like git
o Ability to mentor younger engineers
PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits (Not applicable for Intern or Contract Roles)
Working at PhonePe is a rewarding experience! Great people, a work environment that thrives on creativity, the opportunity to take on roles beyond a defined job description are just some of the reasons you should work with us. Read more about PhonePe on our blog.
