10 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own major technical initiatives and critical components across NuData’s distributed database platforms.
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate production-quality distributed database capabilities.
- Solve complex problems involving storage, transactions, replication, consensus, geo-distribution, concurrency, scalability, availability, reliability, and latency.
- Contribute to architecture decisions, technical tradeoffs, design documents, code reviews, and production support.
- Diagnose difficult production issues across software, storage, networking, and distributed-system boundaries and drive long-term resolution.
- Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and promote strong practices in architecture, code quality, testing, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
- Partner with architects, engineers, product managers, engineering leaders, customers, and globally distributed teams in Bengaluru, the U.S., China, and Ireland.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and open-source solutions and use AI-assisted engineering tools where they improve engineering velocity and quality.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 10+ years of experience, or a PhD with equivalent experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Significant hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed databases, storage systems, or data infrastructure.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems and database architecture, including consensus, replication, consistency models, partitioning, fault tolerance, high availability, and geo-distribution.
- Strong understanding of database internals, transaction management, concurrency control, crash recovery, replication, and failover strategies.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, operating systems, and software architecture.
- Advanced programming experience in C++, Java, Python, Scala, or equivalent languages.
- Extensive experience with object-oriented design, distributed programming, and relational and/or NoSQL database systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native infrastructure environments.
- Demonstrated technical leadership of complex initiatives, architectural decision-making, cross-team collaboration, and engineering mentorship.
- Ability to create high-quality architecture and design documents, communicate tradeoffs, and build consensus across globally distributed teams.
- Experience building production-grade software with AI coding agents and tools such as Claude Code or Codex.
- Ability to provide AI coding agents with appropriate context, specifications, constraints, validation criteria, and operational knowledge.
About TCGplayer
TCGplayer operates an online marketplace and software tools for buying and selling trading card games and related collectibles, serving hobby shops and individual sellers. It generates revenue through marketplace fees, seller subscriptions, and fulfillment programs such as TCGplayer Direct. An eBay subsidiary, the company provides authentication and logistics services that help stores list inventory at scale and reach buyers across the U.S. and internationally.