Zeta

Lead Database Administrator

Zeta  •  Basking Ridge, NJ (Onsite)  •  4 days ago
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Job Description

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  LinkedInInstagram,  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
Zeta

About Zeta

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Zeta was named by Celent in 2023 as being among the likeliest partners for US banks and credit unions looking to modernize to a next-gen issuer processing platform. With our marquee credit card ranked #2 by American cardholders, Zeta is already acknowledged by leading issuers as the go-to platform for market-leading credit card experiences.

Globally, Zeta is recognized as a next-gen banking technology company. Our platform enables financial institutions to launch extensible and compliant banking asset and liability products, across cards, loans and deposits, rapidly. Our cloud-native and fully API-enabled stack supports processing, issuing, lending, core banking, fraud, loyalty, digital banking apps, and many other capabilities.

Zeta has 1700+ employees with over 70% in technology roles across locations in the US, Middle East, and Asia, with regional headquarters in Mumbai, India. Globally, customers have issued 25M+ cards on our platform. Visit us at www.zeta.tech or follow us on LinkedIn, YouTube, and X.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Year Founded
2015
Website
zeta.tech
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