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Vulcury invests in early stage startups and advises companies of all sizes on strategy, growth, and efficiency
Senior Database Engineer
Location
India
Posted
143 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Database Engineer
Vulcury
• Design and maintain database schemas that can accommodate unstructured and semi-structured data. • Ensure data structures support downstream querying, transformation, and application-layer access. • Balance flexibility with performance, consistency, and long-term maintainability. • Support data ingestion workflows using industry-standard tools. • Help design pipelines that move data from raw ingestion through structured and marked-up states. • Collaborate with data and analytics team members to ensure ingestion outputs align with analytical needs. • Work with transformation and modeling tools to support data markup, enrichment, and organization. • Ensure transformed datasets are reliable, well-documented, and reusable. • Help establish best practices around versioning, dependencies, and data lineage. • Partner with data scientists, analysts, and engineers to support analytical and AI-oriented use cases. • Provide guidance on database best practices to junior technical team members. • Contribute to documentation and process clarity as systems evolve.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in database engineering, data engineering, or closely related roles.
- Strong experience designing and managing relational and/or hybrid database systems.
- Demonstrated experience supporting unstructured or semi-structured data ingestion.
- Familiarity with modern data ingestion and transformation tools (e.g., tools such as Alteryx, dbt, or comparable platforms).
- Solid understanding of data modeling, schema design, and query optimization.
- Ability to work independently and make sound technical decisions in an evolving environment.
Benefits
- Foundational impact: You will help shape the data backbone that supports multiple businesses.
- Flexible structure: Part-time engagement with a clear path to expanded responsibility.
- Technical ownership: Meaningful influence over database design and data workflows.
- Growth opportunity: Scope can expand based on demonstrated skill and initiative.
- Competitive compensation: Aligned with seniority and market standards in India.
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