Database Lead

Senior Software Engineer – RDBMS & Google Cloud

Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in RDBMS, SQL, Python, and Google Cloud Platform to design and build scalable, reliable data-intensive applications and cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop solutions using RDBMS, SQL, and data modeling best practices.
• Build cloud-native solutions using Google Cloud Spanner, Google Datastream, and Google Dataflow.
• Develop robust Python-based applications and data pipelines.
• Design data models, schemas, transformations, and data integration workflows.
• Work with change-data-capture (CDC), data synchronization, and distributed data processing.
• Develop, review, test, troubleshoot, and optimize production-quality code.
• Work with Git-based code repositories, branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Manage and contribute to CI/CD and release pipelines, deployments, and production releases.
• Follow software engineering best practices around security, scalability, observability, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of software/data engineering experience.
• Strong RDBMS and SQL skills, including query optimization and database design.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Spanner.
• Experience with Google Datastream / CDC and Google Dataflow.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and data synchronization.
• Strong data modeling skills.
• Proficiency with Git/code repositories, CI/CD, release management, and engineering best practices.

Good to Have

• Experience with Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions/Cloud Run, or other GCP services.
• Experience with database migration, replication, or hybrid cloud architectures.
• Experience designing highly available and multi-region applications.
• Familiarity with Agile development and automated testing.

Ideal Candidate
A hands-on senior engineer who combines strong database fundamentals with modern GCP engineering, can independently design and implement solutions, and follows disciplined software development and release practices.