Database Engineer - Cassandra (5-10 yrs)

Role : Database Engineer- Cassandra & Scylla DB

Job Description :

Responsibilities :

- Be the DB expert to reach out regarding NoSQL DBs.

- Stay up to date with the latest developments in the NoSQL space.

- Review data models created by application teams.

- Manage our Cassandra and Scylla clusters with a focus on capacity management, cost optimization, high availability and performance.

- Work with large database clusters handling 1M+ IOPS in aggregate.

- Create automations to reduce toil.

- Create automations for monitoring and alerting.

- Create runbooks for alert handling.

- Setup backup and restore mechanisms.

- Troubleshoot and resolve various issues with cluster related to nodes, table data, high load, connectivity issues from clients, etc.

- Be the on-call support engineer on a rotational basis.

Qualifications :

- Bachelors/master's in engineering from reputed institutions.

- Overall 5+ years of experience in SQL and NoSQL databases.

- Experience managing large-scale Cassandra and Scylla clusters within depth understanding of architecture, storage, replication, schema design, system tables, logs, DB processes, tools and CQL.

- Experience with installation, configuration, upgrades, OS patching, certificate management, scaling (out/in) for Cassandra and Scylla clusters.

- Experience in setting up backup and restore mechanisms with short RTO and RPO objectives.

- Experience with infrastructure automation and scripting using Terraform, Python or Bash.

- Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, etc

- Experience with managed Cassandra solutions (InstaClustr, Datastax Astra) is a plus.

- Experience with Cloud native distributed databases (eg: TiDB, CockroachDB) is a plus.

- Experience with MySQL and/or Postgres on Linux is a plus.

- Experience working with AWS, with AWS certification preferred.

- Excellent communication skills.