Opportunity brief
Lenskart is hiring for the role of Database Reliability Engineer!
Responsibilities of the Candidate:
- Database Architecture & Reliability
- Performance Engineering
- Operational Excellence & Automation
- Collaboration & Incident Response
Requirements;
- Strong foundations in Linux/Unix, networking (DNS, TCP/IP), and distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or JavaScript for automation and tooling.
- Clean Git practices and strong software engineering discipline.
- Deep expertise in MySQL and MongoDB.
- Proven experience with HA/DR setups, replication, and performance tuning.
- Backup/recovery expertise with XtraBackup, mongodump, Ops Manager, MSSQL native tools.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, and BigQuery.
- Experience building and operating CDC pipelines with Debezium.
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (required)
- Configuration and automation using Ansible/Chef (preferred).
- CI/CD integration with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.
- Metrics and alerting: PMM, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager.
- Tracing/APM: Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry.
- Incident management experience (PagerDuty or equivalent).