Platform Engineer – III, DB Specialist, YugabyteDB

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. Design and develop product features that are delivered to 820M monthly active users and can scale to 100K+ RPS.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timePune • 🇮🇳 IndiaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ClojureJavaLinux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and develop product features that are delivered to 820M monthly active users and can scale to 100K+ RPS.
Take complete ownership of business driven data management in our primary live database YugabyteDB.
Identify the gaps and optimize database usage across the product.
Work with Infrastructure teams to maintain the database clusters (primarily YugabyteDB).
Stabilize and scale the database infrastructure across the organisation.
Occasionally lead cross-team projects and collaborate with developers, QAs, and other departments.
Review others’ code and design.
Ensure best practices for software development are followed by the team.
Contribute to hiring and onboarding processes.
Keep calm and learn every day.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of medium to large scale server-side software development experience.
Experience in working with databases, specifically YugabyteDB, at scale (distributed setup).
Strong working knowledge of a backend programming language like Clojure and Java in production.
In-depth knowledge of CS concepts like data structures and time complexity of algorithms.
Experience of designing and architecting complex systems.
Experience with benchmarking systems for performance, and failure detection.
Knowledge of Posix compliant operating systems (we develop on Mac OS X and deploy on GNU/Linux).
Comfortable using CLI tools for achieving day-to-day tasks.
Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to issue resolution.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with coaching and mentoring peers.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid setup
Worker's insurance
Paid Time Offs
Other employee benefits to be discussed by our Talent Acquisition team in India.

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Hard Skills & Tools

YugabyteDBClojureJavadata structurestime complexitysystem designperformance benchmarkingfailure detectionCLI toolsserver-side software development

Soft Skills

problem-solvingproactive approachverbal communicationwritten communicationcoachingmentoringcollaborationownershipbest practices adherencecalmness under pressure

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science