Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mindlance is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Database Platform team. This role involves designing, automating, and operating production-scale database platforms while collaborating with various engineering teams to enhance database capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and build of database infrastructure provisioning modules and automation pipelines, encoding platform standards for security, availability, and cost
- Implement CI/CD automation to standardize and safely deliver database platform changes across environments
- Enable self-service database capabilities that allow application teams to execute routine operations independently through Client’s Internal Developer Platform
- Build platform tooling that gives application teams visibility into their database health, security posture, and compliance standing
- Support strategic database migrations — including planning, production cutovers, and post-migration validation — in close cooperation with SRE and application teams
- Contribute to the development of migration patterns and standards that can be executed consistently at scale
- Develop guidance artifacts and prescriptive documentation for supported database platforms
- Participate in working sessions with application teams on database architecture, performance, and operational readiness
- Partner with application teams to identify and close compliance gaps against platform standards
- Support the design and maintenance of automated disaster recovery capabilities for production database platforms
- Partner with SRE teams on monitoring, alerting, reliability, incident management, and post-incident analysis
- Ensure database platforms are secure-by-default and aligned with enterprise security and compliance standards
- Integrate database services with IAM controls, networking, and configuration management systems
- Contribute to technical discussions, shared documentation, engineering standards, and patterns
- Collaborate with product owners and leadership on roadmap inputs and technical prioritization
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent professional experience
- 7+ years of combined software engineering and/or infrastructure engineering experience, including hands-on experience with at least one distributed or document-oriented database technology (e.g., Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, DocumentDB, or Cosmos DB)
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (particularly Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), with proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming or scripting language (Python, Go, or equivalent)
- Experience with Couchbase Server or Couchbase Capella, and/or AWS managed database services (Aurora, DocumentDB, ElastiCache)
- Experience with event-driven systems, workflow orchestration frameworks, database schema/change management tools (e.g., Liquibase), or compliance automation and policy-as-code tooling
- Prior involvement in large-scale database migrations in production environments, or backend software development experience (Java, Node.js, Python, or equivalent)
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