Database Platform Engineer

Overview

Database Platform Engineer to own the full database layer for a cloud-native product company.

What you'll do

• Own database design and migration scripts across Dev, QA, and Production on Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• Design and evolve schemas, stored procedures, views, functions, and complex queries.
• Perform query performance tuning using execution plans, index strategy, statistics, and blocking analysis.
• Provide on-call database support and incident response.
• Run database CI/CD pipeline using DACPAC or migration-based deployments integrated with Azure DevOps.
• Implement database security including TDE, RBAC, row-level security, auditing, and access control.
• Conduct backup, restore, and disaster recovery validation and monitor via Azure Monitor/SQL Insights.

What you'll need

• 8 to 12 years of hands-on SQL Server experience.
• Deep expertise in Azure SQL Managed Instance or Azure SQL Database.
• Advanced T-SQL skills for complex queries, stored procedures, views, triggers, and dynamic SQL.
• Query tuning using execution plans, index design, statistics, and wait stats analysis.
• Database DevOps experience using DACPAC, Flyway, or equivalent migration tooling in CI/CD.
• Strong high availability knowledge including Always On, failover groups, and geo-replication.
• Experience working with .NET teams using ADO.NET or Entity Framework.

Nice to have

• Azure Database Administrator Associate certification.
• Experience with Azure SQL pricing tiers and cost optimization.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric or Azure Synapse for analytical workloads.
• Experience with row-level security for multi-tenant SaaS products.

Details

• Hybrid work model with a minimum of 3 days per week from the Chennai office.
• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.