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About us:
Build the future of banking.
Zeta is a next-generation banking technology company providing cloud-native, fully stackable processing and core banking platforms for issuers. With a focus on scalability, compliance, and innovation, Zeta empowers financial institutions to modernize their technology infrastructure and deliver secure, seamless digital banking experiences.
Our impact runs at real-world scale. Today, over 25 million cards are live on Zeta-powered platforms across 7 countries, supported by a passionate team of 1,700+ Zetanauts across India, the US, EMEA, and Asia. Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Mastercard, and other reputed strategic investors, we reached a valuation of $2 billion in 2025.
Our focus is on establishing product lines that focus on key outcomes by addressing real customer pain points, modernizing legacy systems, and strengthening core fundamentals. As a result, our systems and platforms support a wide range of banking and payments capabilities, including:
1. Tachyon, our cloud-native banking stack built for population-scale systems
2. Cipher, our unified authentication platform for secure, high-volume banking environments
3. Digital Credit as a Service, enabling banks to launch credit lines on UPI
4. Elena, our intelligent and conversational AI platform for banking
5. Pixel, India’s first digital-native credit card, launched in partnership with HDFC Bank, for whom we also revamped their PayZapp mobile app: Winner of the Celent Model Bank Award for Payments Innovation 2024
6. Sparrow, the leading card experience for non-prime cardholders in the US
…and more across cards, payments, lending, and core banking.
We are an engineering-first organization that values ownership, bias for action, and long-term thinking. Together, we solve some of the hardest problems in banking tech. Our culture is built around trust, collaboration, and creating the conditions for you to drive impact proportionate to your potential. Reinforcing our commitment to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace, we have been consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work.
If you want to build cutting-edge banking tech that enables banks to serve millions reliably, securely, and at a population scale, Zeta is your playground.
If you would like to learn more about how we have grown and evolved over the years, watch our journey here. You can also explore our website and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and X.
About the Role
We are looking for a Lead Database Engineer to oversee the design, administration, and optimization of enterprise database systems supporting critical applications and data platforms. The role involves leading database operations, customer engagement, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security, high availability, and mentoring teams to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure database environments
Responsibilities
- Accountable to manage Zeta’s ever growing cloud based PostgreSQL and MySQL database clusters across the world.
- Lead a dedicated team of database administrators to provide high quality DBA support for Postgres and MySQL clusters across the world.
- Work closely with the Engineering Director and supervise the DBA team, delegate tasks, mentor, and encourage best practices.
- Work closely with various application development teams to ensure database changes adhere to best practices and are properly prioritized and scheduled.
- Should be hands-on supporting large-scale database running on AWS
- Proactively identify areas of optimization and troubleshoot database performance issues
- Improve service availability and scalability through tuning, automation, tools, and process
- In addition to Relational Databases, be involved in everything related to NoSQL and New SQL databases like couchDB, Yugabyte and their deployments, design, maintenance, migrations, administration, configuration, etc.
- Perform various audits of existing databases, figure out possible improvements and ways to implement them efficiently.
Skills
- Experience in Database Administration – configuration, backup/restore, replication, etc. Experience with databases of large sizes which are in the order of 10s of TBs is a plus
- Experience in mentoring a team of database administrators.
- Experience in performance optimization techniques
- Bachelor's degree in Computer science or equivalent
- Excellent Troubleshooting and Communication skills
- Mandatory : Exceptional knowledge of PostgreSQL (experience with MySQL is a plus).
- Ability to solve problems, make sound decisions and use good judgement
- Experience in any one of the scripting languages (bash, python)
- Experience in automating DBA activities using Terraform technologies
Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in engineering (computer science, information systems)
- 8 to 12 years hands-on experience on various relational databases with PostgreSQL as primary skillset.
Equal Opportunity
Zeta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities to apply and believe that a diverse workforce is key to our success
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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