Senior Database Engineer

Get to know our Company:

GX Bank is the FIRST digital bank in Malaysia, approved by BNM to commence operations. We aim to leverage technology and innovation to serve the financial needs of the unserved and underserved individuals, and micro and small medium enterprises.

We are driven by our shared purpose and passion to bring positive transformation to the banking industry, starting with solutions that address the financial struggles of Malaysians and businesses.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end management of MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and Amazon Aurora database systems, ensuring their stability, scalability, and reliability.

• Design and implement scalable and efficient database architectures that align with business requirements.

• Oversee the deployment of database changes, updates, and patches.

• Conduct in-depth performance tuning activities, optimising SQL queries, and database configurations for maximum efficiency.

• Implement and manage monitoring solutions to proactively address and prevent performance issues.

• Implement and manage high availability and disaster recovery solutions to minimise downtime and ensure data integrity.

• Orchestrate and manage database infrastructure using IaC to ensure consistent and automated provisioning.

• Drive database observability by establishing frameworks for metrics, logging, and tracing to maintain system health.

• Execute proactive capacity planning, implementing strategies such as table partitioning and data lifecycle management to handle growth.

• Build custom automation tools and models to streamline resource forecasting and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• 2-4 years of experience in database engineering, with expertise in MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and Amazon RDS/Aurora

• Strong knowledge of database design, performance tuning, and security best practices.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Domain experience in RDBMS/NoSQL databases: Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Time Series Database.

• Leadership and mentorship skills.

• Knowledge of TCP/IP stack, Load balancer, Networking.

• Professional background within financial institutions or the banking sector.

• Proficiency in infrastructure management with any of Terraform/Ansible/Puppet & CI/CD.

• Strong understanding of observability principles and monitoring ecosystems.

• Expertise in scaling high-volume databases, specifically through partitioning and other optimization techniques.

• Good to have development background with the ability to create tools for system analysis; basic scripting (e.g., Bash or Python) is essential, while advanced automation skills are a plus.