Website:
netcore.ai
Job details:
Job Title: Head of Database Engineering Location: Mumbai | Experience: 12–15 Years Employment Type: Full-Time
- About Netcore Cloud
- Netcore Cloud is a global AI-first Martech company helping brands acquire, engage, and retain customers through intelligent, personalized experiences. We operate at massive scale across 40+ countries, powering billions of customer interactions every day. Our engineering teams solve some of the most complex data and infrastructure challenges in the industry — and we're looking for exceptional people to lead the way.
- About the Role
- We are looking for a seasoned and strategic Head of Database Engineering to own and evolve our entire database ecosystem. This is a senior leadership role that goes beyond operations — you will define the long-term database strategy, drive architectural decisions, lead a high-performing team, and ensure our systems are secure, scalable, and cost-efficient across our multi-cloud environment (GCP & AWS).
- If you thrive in high-scale, 24x7 production environments and love solving hard problems at the intersection of performance, security, and reliability — this role is for you.
- What You'll Do
- Strategic & Architectural Leadership
- Define and execute a long-term database strategy aligned with business objectives, focusing on scalability, resilience, and security
- Lead all architectural decisions across database solutions with a security-by-design approach across GCP and AWS
- Drive aggressive cost optimization strategies and provide regular reporting on efficiency and savings
- Research and evaluate emerging database technologies to modernize our stack and drive upgrade/consolidation initiatives
- Proactively forecast capacity needs to support growing user base, transaction volumes, and data loads
- Operational Excellence & Governance
- Own end-to-end management, health, and performance of all production and non-production database environments
- Design and implement a comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting strategy for proactive issue resolution
- Champion automation across provisioning, patching, configuration, and routine maintenance
- Own database security — encryption (at-rest & in-transit), IAM/RBAC policies, vulnerability management, audits, and hardening
- Act as the final escalation point for complex performance issues and deep-dive tuning across diverse database systems
- Architect and regularly test robust backup, restore, and disaster recovery plans
- Team Leadership & Collaboration
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of DBAs and Database Engineers
- Partner closely with Development, DevOps, Security, and Product teams for seamless application delivery
- Champion DevSecOps practices and ensure compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and data privacy regulations
- Communicate database strategy, risks, and performance metrics clearly to executive leadership
- What We're Looking For
- Experience: 12–15+ years in database engineering/administration, with at least 5 years in a leadership role in high-scale, 24x7 environments
- Polyglot Database Expertise:Relational: MySQL, PostgreSQL
- NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra
- Columnar/Analytics: Vertica, Druid
- Search: Elasticsearch
- Deep expertise in database security — encryption, network security, RBAC/IAM, vulnerability scanning, audit logging, SOC 2 & ISO 27001
- Proven experience managing databases in multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS) with a strong track record in cost optimization
- Strong background in architectural design — secure, scalable, highly available database systems
- Strong automation mindset — Python, Bash scripting; experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools preferred
- Expertise in observability tools — Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native monitoring solutions
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills — able to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Why Join Netcore?
- �� Immense growth and continuous learning opportunities
- �� Solve complex engineering problems at massive scale
- �� Work with top industry talent and global brands
- �� Open, entrepreneurial culture that values innovation and ownership
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