Senior Tech Lead/Senior Datebase Engineer

WE ARE HIRING: Senior Tech Lead / Senior DB Engineer
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Company Industry: Information Technology / Software Engineering
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Tech Lead / Senior DB Engineer to design, implement, and optimize database systems while supporting salable, data-driven applications. The role requires strong expertise in relational and NoSQL databases, AWS cloud infrastructure, and collaboration with international teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Perform data analysis and data investigations.
• Work closely with product teams and US-based clients, ensuring smooth communication across time zones.
• Build and manage data warehouses and columnar databases for analytics and reporting.
• Write, tune, and review complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and performance optimizations.
• Ensure database scalability, security, and high availability in production environments.
• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to support data-driven applications and pipelines.
• Support AWS-based infrastructure (RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, etc.) for database hosting and management.
• Troubleshoot production database issues with a focus on root cause analysis and prevention.
• Optional: Experience with Hadoop, Hive / AWS EMR.

Qualifications & Experience

Experience

• 7+ years of experience as a Database Engineer or similar role.
• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments.

Technical Skills

• Must have skills: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
• Proven hands-on expertise with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and data warehouse solutions.
• Strong background in AWS cloud database services (RDS, Redshift, Aurora, DynamoDB).
• Deep proficiency in SQL optimization and query performance tuning.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable ETL processes and data pipelines.
• Familiarity with database monitoring tools and performance profiling.
• Strong understanding of ACID principles, indexing, partitioning, replication, and sharding.
• Experience in Python, Shell scripting, and Java / Spring Boot application development.
• Experience with big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop) is a plus.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices (CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to data modeling for machine learning and analytics pipelines.

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