# Senior Data Engineer ## Summary - Organization: Recrew AI - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Type: Full-Time - Department: N/A - Status: active - Posted: [object Object] - Updated: [object Object] - Closing Date: N/A - External Apply: Yes - External Apply URL: https://talent.recrew.ai/careers/senior-data-infrastructure-engineer-sde3-3fd00a/apply/ ## Details - Salary: N/A - Experience: N/A - Education: N/A - Team: N/A - Reporting To: N/A ## Description **About the job** Role: Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer (SDE3) Function: Data Infrastructure / Platform Engineering Location: Bengaluru Type: Full-time Industry: Information Technology & Services, Computer Software, Fintech **About Company** An enterprise tech startup founded in 2016 and based in Bengaluru. The company builds India's paperless digital infrastructure — covering digital identity verification, legal e-signing, document automation, eNACH payment automation, and e-KYC. It serves 1,500+ enterprises and 100 million individual users. The company runs lean at ~90 people, with ~40 engineers, and operates at the intersection of financial inclusion and regulatory-grade reliability. Its culture rewards ownership, first-principles thinking, and craftsmanship over process. **Position Overview** This is a founding seat on the company's Platform Pod — a greenfield infrastructure team with a P0 mandate. As the Data Infrastructure SME, you will own the entire database estate: performance, replication, backup/DR, capacity, and cost across high-throughput transactional systems underpinning payments, identity, e-sign, and compliance products. You will also define the data-layer standards and self-serve tooling that product teams across a ~40-engineer organisation depend on. **Role & Responsibilities** Own end-to-end health of the database estate — performance tuning, replication topology, backup/DR, version upgrades, capacity planning, and cost optimisation across high-volume transactional systems Define and enforce schema design, migration, and query standards for product teams, reducing production incidents caused by upstream data-layer decisions Build observability and alerting coverage for the data layer — slow-query detection, replication lag, storage growth, and connection saturation — integrated into the Platform Pod's production-access governance model Drive the estate toward self-serve and DBaaS-style offerings for internal product teams, reducing ad-hoc DBA dependency and enabling rotation-friendly operations Establish and maintain SLAs for core data infrastructure, including RTO/RPO targets, and own incident response and post-mortem discipline for data-layer failures Collaborate with the Platform Pod on production-access governance — ensuring no other team requires direct database access through automation, audited break-glass procedures, and runbook coverage Partner with product engineering teams on data modelling, indexing strategy, and query review as the organisation scales **Must Have Criteria** - 5–8 years operating production database systems at high transactional volume, with hands-on ownership of performance tuning, replication, backup/DR, and capacity planning - Deep expertise in at least two of MySQL or PostgreSQL — including internals, query optimisation, index strategy, and version upgrade management - Demonstrated experience designing and enforcing schema migration discipline and query standards for multi-team engineering organisations - Experience building database observability: slow-query analysis, replication lag monitoring, storage forecasting, and connection pool management in production - Experience with backup/DR design including RTO/RPO definition, recovery testing, and automated failover at scale **Nice to Have** - Experience with TiDB or other distributed SQL / NewSQL systems in production - Familiarity with DBaaS platform design or self-serve data infrastructure tooling for internal engineering teams - Exposure to regulated environments — banking, fintech, or payment infrastructure — with awareness of compliance and audit requirements around data access - Experience with database packaging and upgrade automation for software distributed to customer or restricted environments - Contributions to or ownership of production-access governance tooling (break-glass workflows, audit logging, access automation) **What We Offer** - Founding seat on the Platform Pod — greenfield mandate with P0 priority and direct influence over infrastructure decisions across a ~40-engineer organisation - Ownership of a domain that touches every product — payments, identity, e-sign, and compliance — with real SLA accountability - Lean, high-trust environment: ~90-person company where platform decisions ship fast and your work is visible to leadership ## Responsibilities None ## Skills None ## Tags None ## Organization - Name: Recrew AI - Website: https://www.recrew.ai - Industry: Staffing and Recruiting - Size: 11-50 employees - Founded Year: N/A - Description: Recrew is a recruiting company built for how talent acquisition should work, not how it has always worked. We combine proprietary AI agents with a curated network of specialist recruiters to deliver full-service hiring for startups, mid-market companies, and Global Capability Centers. No retainers or bloated teams, just mandates filled with the right people. The traditional recruiting agency model is broken. Incentives are misaligned, pipelines are thin, and most firms sell you a team that is learning on your dime. We built Recrew to fix that by screening at scale with human recruiters who have earned their stripes in specific industries and functions. Our model is simple: We only win when you make a hire. That keeps us honest. We also build the AI infrastructure that powers recruiting at scale. Our API-based products handle resume parsing, job description analysis, and candidate matching using large language models built for the specific demands of talent acquisition. Recruiters, ATS platforms, and staffing firms use our technology to screen faster, match more accurately, and reduce the manual work that slows down every hiring team. We work with companies that care about hiring quality and hiring speed. Whether you need a recruiting partner to fill critical roles or AI tools to power your existing team, Recrew is built for both. Visit www.recrew.ai to see the platform or book a conversation with our team.