Site Reliability Engineer 4 To 7 Years - Database

About PhonePe Limited:

Headquartered in India, its flagship product, the PhonePe digital payments app, was launched in Aug 2016. As of April 2025, PhonePe has over 60 Crore (600 Million) registered users and a digital payments acceptance network spread across over 4 Crore (40+ million) merchants. PhonePe also processes over 33 Crore (330+ Million) transactions daily with an Annualized Total Payment Value (TPV) of over INR 150 lakh crore.

PhonePe’s portfolio of businesses includes the distribution of financial products (Insurance, Lending, and Wealth) as well as new consumer tech businesses (Pincode - hyperlocal e-commerce and Indus AppStore Localized App Store for the Android ecosystem) in India, which are aligned with the company’s vision to offer every Indian an equal opportunity to accelerate their progress by unlocking the flow of money and access to services.

Culture:

At PhonePe, we go the extra mile to make sure you can bring your best self to work, Everyday!. And that starts with creating the right environment for you. We empower people and trust them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one. PhonePe-rs solve complex problems and execute quickly; often building frameworks from scratch. If you’re excited by the idea of building platforms that touch millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your dreams with purpose and speed, join us!

SRE - Database

Experience : 4 to 7 years

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced SRE- Database candidate with a good understanding of Linux systems who will be responsible for ensuring the performance, availability, and security of clusters of MySQL instances. You will be responsible for orchestrating upgrades, backups, performance monitoring and provisioning of database instances for a high demand fast growing environment with tens of Terabytes of data. These are engineers who are passionate about reliability, performance, and efficiency, and with experience in building tools, services, and automation to manage and improve production services.

Responsibilities

• Provision and manage farms of multimaster MySQL/galera clusters (Linux) across geographical locations
• Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases
• Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration.
• Manage database changes. ( alters & other ddls )
• Manage infrastructure components outside DB systems and ensuring overall reliability of service
• Troubleshoot issues across the stack - hardware, software, application, and network
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Participate in oncall rotation
  
  

• Experience in Linux is a must
• Strong proficiency in MySQL database management
• Worked with large farms of db clusters 10+ large size of dbs 1TB+
• Understanding of MySQL’s underlying storage engines( InnoDB) and experience with replication configuration
• Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL
• Ability to plan resource requirements from high level specifications
• Ability to effectively manage / augment capacity
• Familiarity with other SQL/NoSQL databases is a plus
• Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational databases is a plus
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like git
  
  

• Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Insurance, Life Insurance
• Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program, Onsite Medical Center, Emergency Support System
• Parental Support - Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit Program, Adoption Assistance Program, Day-care Support Program
• Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits, Transfer Support Policy, Travel Policy
• Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution, Flexible PF Contribution, Gratuity, NPS, Leave Encashment
• Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance, Car Lease, Salary Advance Policy