# Platform Engineer - III (DB Specialist - YugabyteDB)

**Company**: Keywords Studios
**Location**: Pune, Maharashtra
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64141679

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer - III (DB Specialist - YugabyteDB) to join our product and platform development team. As a key member, you will collaborate with multiple teams to deliver high-quality and highly scalable products.

## Responsibilities

- Design and develop product features that serve 820M monthly active users and scale to 100K+ RPS.

- Take ownership of business-driven data management in our primary live database YugabyteDB.

- Identify gaps and optimize database usage across the product.

- Work with Infrastructure teams to maintain database clusters, primarily YugabyteDB.

- Stabilize and scale the database infrastructure across the organization.

- 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.

## Requirements

- 6+ years of medium to large-scale server-side software development experience.

- Experience working with databases, specifically YugabyteDB, at scale (distributed setup).

- Strong working knowledge of backend programming languages like Clojure and Java in production.

- In-depth knowledge of CS concepts like data structures and time complexity of algorithms.

- Experience designing and architecting complex systems.

- Experience with benchmarking systems for performance and failure detection.

- Knowledge of Posix compliant operating systems.

- Comfortable using CLI tools for day-to-day tasks.

- Excellent problem-solving skills and 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).

## Nice to Have

- Strong knowledge of functional programming (we use Clojure).

- Exposure to project management and related tools.

## Benefits

- Hybrid setup

- Worker's insurance

- Paid Time Offs

- Other employee benefits to be discussed by our Talent Acquisition team in India.

## Skills

### Required
- YugabyteDB
- Clojure
- Java
- data structures
- algorithms
- benchmarking
- Posix
- CLI tools

### Nice to have
- functional programming
- project management

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