Job Description

Job Requirements

About Phenom

At Phenom, our purpose is to help a billion people find the right job. We're a global HR tech company delivering AI-powered talent experience solutions for enterprise organizations. Our intelligent platform helps companies attract, engage, and retain top talent.

Role Summary

We are looking for a

Principal DBOps Engineer

to lead the strategy, performance, automation, and scalability of our database systems. You will be the go-to expert for everything related to database operations, including reliability, observability, automation, and infrastructure-as-code across multiple environments. This is a hands-on leadership role with strong influence on architecture, security, and database lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities

Design and manage highly available, scalable, and secure database architectures across production and non-production environments. Automate database provisioning, monitoring, backup, and recovery workflows using DevOps tools and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams to ensure database performance, reliability, and data integrity. Lead incident response and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for any database-related issues and outages. Guide the team on best practices around schema management, indexing strategies, and query performance. Mentor and lead a team of DB Engineers and collaborate cross-functionally with SREs, DevOps, and Cloud Architects. Establish data governance, auditing, and compliance protocols across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.). Evaluate and implement database observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.). Optimize costs through usage monitoring, capacity planning, and right-sizing of cloud-based DB infrastructure.

Skills & Qualifications

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. 10+ years of experience in database administration and operations in high-scale production environments. Deep expertise in

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB

, or similar databases (relational and NoSQL). Proven experience in

cloud-native DBOps

(AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, GCP Cloud SQL, etc.). Strong scripting experience (Python, Bash, or Go) and use of automation frameworks (Ansible, Terraform). Exposure to containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm). Experience with CI/CD pipelines for DB changes and automated testing (Liquibase/Flyway). Solid understanding of database security, data masking, encryption, and access control models. Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Nice to Have

Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) Experience with multi-region replication and disaster recovery design Contributions to open-source DB tools or platforms

Why Phenom?

Work with cutting-edge technologies in a high-impact role Be part of a fast-growing product company solving real-world problems at scale * Culture focused on innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration