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Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Bangalore, India Full-time
About the role
Senior Database Reliability Engineers (DBRE) at Grab keep database systems supporting all user-facing services and production systems running smoothly 24/7/365. Based in Bangalore, India, you will implement best practices across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Vector databases, improve platformization and self-service APIs, enhance reliability and observability, and partner with application teams to ship solutions. The role blends database engineering with software development and automation, including Agentive AI capabilities, and includes an on-call rotation.
What you’ll do
- Implement best practices across supported datastores (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Vector databases)
- Improve the end-to-end platformization of the database lifecycle to support feature-ready agentic workflows
- Transform database platform self-service capabilities into reusable APIs for cross-platform integration
- Enhance database reliability and performance across Grab while partnering with application teams to ship solutions
- Improve database observability through metric tracking, anomaly detection, and preventive automated actions
- Collaborate across platform and application engineering teams to safely deploy production changes and reduce database-related incidents
- Provide database expertise to engineering teams through schema migration reviews, query optimization, and performance tuning solutions
- Automate database infrastructure and empower engineering teams by delivering self-service tools
What you’ll bring
- At least 6 years of experience running MySQL/PostgreSQL databases in large environments
- Knowledge in infrastructure automation using Python Programming
- Awareness of cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with Linux
- Experience with stable and secure systems management practices
- Knowledge of data modelling and data structure design skills
- Experience with AI and Agentive AI capabilities to enhance automation and platform features
Skills
Python ProgrammingAWS/GCPSQLLinuxData modellingData structure designAgentive AIMySQL
Benefits
- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance
- GrabFlex benefits package to suit your needs and aspirations
- Parental and Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme
- FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours