About Position:

Looking for Database engineers with hands-on experience in database engine internals, query optimization, storage engines, transaction management, MVCC, replication, and distributed databases PostgreSQL/MySQL internals.

Role: Database Internals Engineer
Location: All Persistent Location
Experience: 4 to 10 Years
Job Type: Full time Employment

What You'll Do:

Developing external customer-facing Managed Database products (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, Kafka, OpenSearch, MongoDB).
Developing and maintaining distributed systems.
Authoring and giving feedback on technical designs.
Developing APIs with Go Lang.
Providing the last line of support for DBaaS products.
Collaborating with an agile, self-managed team of peers.
Leveraging technologies such as Temporal, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana and more. Integrating with many components across the Digital Ocean stack.
Evangelizing the work of the team with Engineering, Product, Design, and beyond.

Expertise You'll Bring:

A solid understanding of building and maintaining distributed systems.




Experience with resilience engineering, fault tolerance, and failure domains as they relate to database backends.
Strong spoken and written technical capabilities in developing and maintaining software.
Proficiency in developing APIs with Golang.
Experience with concurrency patterns in Golang.
Working knowledge of microservices using container workload engines and frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and frameworks.
A robust background and exposure to different databases – MySQL/PostgreSQL.
Familiarity with prevalent message bus and queuing technologies.
Passion for collaborating directly with customers to discover their Jobs to be done and developing easy delightful solutions to solve those jobs.
Ability to work closely with front-end developers.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate and demonstrate empathy with key stakeholders, both spoke

📌 Database Internals Engineer Pune
🏢 Persistent Systems
📍 Pune