MySQL - Senior Lead Database Engineer

Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company.

Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce.

Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.

Role Overview We are seeking a Database STL (Individual Contributor) with deep expertise in MySQL and strong working knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra.

This role combines hands-on database administration and optimization with strategic ownership of database reliability, automation, and cloud adoption.

The candidate will lead by example—driving technical excellence, influencing best practices, and partnering cross-functionally with DevOps, SRE, and product engineering teams to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable database platforms.

End-to-End Ownership of MySQL databases in production & staging—availability, performance, and reliability. 2.

Architect, manage, and support MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra clusters for scale and resilience. 3.

Define and enforce backup, recovery, HA, and DR strategies across all critical database platforms. 4.

Drive database performance engineering—tuning queries, optimizing schemas, indexing, and partitioning for high-volume workloads. 5.

Own replication, clustering, and failover architectures ensuring business continuity. 6.

Champion automation & AI-driven operations—design self-healing scripts, predictive scaling, and proactive monitoring solutions.

Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps teams on AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, EC2, S3) to optimize cost, security, and performance. 7.

Establish monitoring dashboards & alerting mechanisms for slow queries, replication lag, deadlocks, and capacity planning.

Ensure compliance & security standards—encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements. 8.

Lead incident management & on-call rotations, ensuring rapid response and minimal MTTR. 9.